Hello
Well, we all know the various types of malware: trojans, spyware, rootkits, etc.
But the "rabbit" ?
Surfing on the web, I found some informations on this type of malware that I honestly know little.
Hoping that some of you don't know precisely what are rabbit, I thought I'd do this short description.
The rabbit, also called "wabbit", are probably the dumbest category, pointless and annoying malware. Their purpose is to fit into a computer and multiply, until it fills all the space possible: hence their name, "rabbit", for the speed with which the rabbits reproduce. Besides taking up space on your hard disk, also have the funny habit of starting new processes, which increase in exponential progression, until a computer quickly, consuming all of its computing capacity. Aside from that, it not infects any files: it multiplies and eats all the resources available on your computer, that's all.
The end result of a rabbit is to bombard a system with requests for process to be activated until the system collapses. Forcing a computer to do more work than they can sustain, in short, and the computer will eventually give in. Rabbit will not damage your files, you do not ship to your contacts: send only to crash your computer. A stupid, useless malware and annoying, in fact.
As for other malware, even rabbit are not automatic, but must be user initiated with a click: a good reason because it's always good to check everything carefully, before you use it.
This malware was more widespread in the past, but even today you can infect your PC even because not all the antiviruses detect them because they can be a simple batch file.
If you are unable to terminate processes that are created by the rabbit with the Task Manager, you can try to reboot your PC and run a scan with your antivirus.
Regards
Well, we all know the various types of malware: trojans, spyware, rootkits, etc.
But the "rabbit" ?
Surfing on the web, I found some informations on this type of malware that I honestly know little.
Hoping that some of you don't know precisely what are rabbit, I thought I'd do this short description.
The rabbit, also called "wabbit", are probably the dumbest category, pointless and annoying malware. Their purpose is to fit into a computer and multiply, until it fills all the space possible: hence their name, "rabbit", for the speed with which the rabbits reproduce. Besides taking up space on your hard disk, also have the funny habit of starting new processes, which increase in exponential progression, until a computer quickly, consuming all of its computing capacity. Aside from that, it not infects any files: it multiplies and eats all the resources available on your computer, that's all.
The end result of a rabbit is to bombard a system with requests for process to be activated until the system collapses. Forcing a computer to do more work than they can sustain, in short, and the computer will eventually give in. Rabbit will not damage your files, you do not ship to your contacts: send only to crash your computer. A stupid, useless malware and annoying, in fact.
As for other malware, even rabbit are not automatic, but must be user initiated with a click: a good reason because it's always good to check everything carefully, before you use it.
This malware was more widespread in the past, but even today you can infect your PC even because not all the antiviruses detect them because they can be a simple batch file.
If you are unable to terminate processes that are created by the rabbit with the Task Manager, you can try to reboot your PC and run a scan with your antivirus.
Regards
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