It has been reported that Microsoft has not found a solution to fix the Windows XP rootkit, as yet.

It is revealed that Microsoft is in dilemma following the failure of its newest security updates for Windows XP against machines infected with a rootkit virus.

Microsoft revealed that the latest updates see the rootkit and fail to work. This is preferred over last month’s incident when machines infected with the Alureon rootkit crashed endlessly.

According to reports, the latest set of updates for Windows was launched on 16 April. Some of these updates solve vulnerabilities in the core, or kernel, of Windows. The core of Windows is where rootkit viruses take home.

It was seen that when a machine is infected with the Alureon virus, it keeps a check over net traffic and picks out user names, passwords and credit card numbers. Moreover, it provides attackers with a back door into infected machines. The presence of the virus prevents XP users from applying updates.

"These abnormal conditions on a system could be the result of an infection with a computer virus that modifies some operating system files, which renders the infected computer incompatible with the kernel update," revealed the statement issued by Microsoft.