Trojan horses are not simple cleaning. When they’re state-sponsored Trojans, you’ll have little luck getting rid of it in totality.
Further, MUCH of our infrastructure is running on old hardware and software. Last I read, much of our nuclear infrastructure is running on old NIX, Solaris, and even Windows 98 operating systems.
“Last I read, much of our nuclear infrastructure is running on old NIX, Solaris, and even Windows 98 operating systems.”
And if that stuff is on the internet, we almost deserve the pain we could get from it.
State-sponsored Trojans?
What does Obamacare have to do with any of this?
So the idea is this alleged Trojan is something like Stuxnet?
I’m skeptical, and I am in the power industry. The company I work for has nothing critical running on Win98. I’d be surprised if we ever did have any critical controls running on Win98.
I work for a state correctional facility and our security fence is run by a Windows 95 based Pentium 1 PC because it has the ISA slot that is needed to run the comm card.
Fortunately an upgrade should be complete by the years end.