McAfee Labs Threat Advisory for W32/DistTrack

W32/DistTrack is detection for a worm malware that has extremely destructive behaviour. Machines infected by it are rendered useless because most of the files, the Master Boot Record (MBR), and the partition tables are overwritten with random data. The overwritten data is lost and is not recoverable. The system is rendered unbootable.

Detailed information about the threat, its propagation, characteristics and mitigation can be viewed in the Threat Advisory

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