The fallout from the Flame malware that was identified in May continues. Ongoing research into the malware has led antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab to discover a new malware platform, which it has named “Gauss.” This platform has several similarities to Flame, Kaspersky said. “There’s no doubt Gauss comes from the same factory which produced Flame,” added Roel Schouwenberg, senior researcher at Kaspersky Lab. “They’re built on the same platform.”
Not sure why we don't push to have users disable or remove Java from their PC's. Its worse then a lot of other stuff out there. I did away with Java a while ago. When I work on PC's that are known to be infected. Chances are 90% the infection is Java related. Gauss and Flame are not the real world problems (as yet) and we ignore the common everyday infections that are more widespread and deal just as much if not worse problems.
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Flame Malware Ignites Gauss in Lebanon
Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 10, 2012 08:50 AMThe fallout from the Flame malware that was identified in May continues. Ongoing research into the malware has led antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab to discover a new malware platform, which it has named “Gauss.” This platform has several similarities to Flame, Kaspersky said. “There’s no doubt Gauss comes from the same factory which produced Flame,” added Roel Schouwenberg, senior researcher at Kaspersky Lab. “They’re built on the same platform.”