Malware authors mixing a lethal cocktail

No surprise here. An article quoting staff from Kasperksy Labs.

Good to take heed, however...your best defense, as I have always maintained, is a fully patched system with an up-to-date virus scanner (yes, even in Linux). Another good idea (for Windows) is Ad Aware Pro, or, at the very least, Spybot Search & Destroy. These two programs monitor running processes (without a lot of overhead) and try to stop known "bad" processes from installing/being executed.

Be careful, and good luck!!