Redkit malware

Viruses and worms
1

redkit malware, what is it? what does it do? and how do I get rid of it.

Thanks NBC.com

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http://thehackernews.com/2012/05/redkit-exploit-kit-new-web-malware.html#_ this is what it is

How do you know you have it ?

If you are concerned then follow the steps here and use this thread for the logs http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

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Read the write-up here: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-exploit-kit-redkit-discovered-wild-050712 (link article author = Brian Donohue)
changing their “mojo” every hour.
More recent write-up: http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/red-kit-an-emerging-exploit-pack (link article author McAfee’s Varadharajan Krishnasamy
Research Scientist)
See for a detection: http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=1018763
Newest variant is DarkComet: -http://malwaremustdie.blogspot.nl/2013/01/peeking-at-jdb-exploit-kit-infector.html (report from HilkCrusader)
Mind that avast! webshield will alert the code from the above website as JS:Decode-GB[Trj] rss-{gzip}

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