THIS IS GETTING CRAZY

Malware now has code to defend itself from other malware.  I recently had my Yahoo account hacked from someone located in Turkey (so much for Yahoo paying attention to my login pattern) and an attempt to get into my Facebook account.

I am getting fed up with this crap.

Security Researchers Discover the Mother of All Botnets
By Damon Poeter
June 30, 2011 03:51am EST
PCMAG.COM

There a few distinctive improvements in TDL-4 over previous TDSS generations, the Kaspersky Labs researcher writes. One is that the latest edition of TDSS includes a kind of "anti-virus" that scans a slave bot's registry for malicious programs that could interfere with a slaved computer's efficiency or even try to take over the computer to make it part of a rival botnet.

"TDSS contains code to remove approximately 20 malicious programs, including Gbot, ZeuS, Clishmic, Optima, etc.," Golovanov writes. "TDSS scans the registry, searches for specific file names, blacklists the addresses of the command and control centers of other botnets and prevents victim machines from contacting them.

"This 'antivirus' actually helps TDSS; on the one hand, it fights cybercrime competition, while on the other hand it protects TDSS and associated malware against undesirable interactions that could be caused by other malware on the infected machine."