World's most advanced rootkit penetrates 64-bit Windows

[esh]

The important thing seems to be that you still need to a run a file which acts as a dropper, which will no doubt ask for UAC permission. It's not an entirely silent threat at least.

As for Linux... it's a mixed bag. The updates break things far more than Windows ones these days for me. This usually means I don't actually update Linux more than once a year anymore, I just drag my workstation home and do it then and settle in for the weekend trying to get the thing to boot afterwards. Software is hit and miss. MATLAB is far buggier on Linux I have found. I've never tried Photoshop in WinE. I never found a good non-linear video editor for Linux and Lightwave is also a no-go. Performance is fine (I just use fluxbox directly on top of X as at least I can compile that in about a minute, I tried compiling KDE once.... 45 minutes later....), except when I'm seeing high disk throughput then the system just becomes unuseable until it's finished. Once it's up though, it's stable as a rock. Up for hundreds of days at a time.

[Technical Ben]

I'd just like to be able to edit my program settings files without being told "access denied" by notepad. Copy/pasting things to my desktop so they don't have UAC blocking access to them is getting annoying.

Might go get me some rootkits. 

[Rik]

See your dentist, Ben, they can give you ready made root canals.