Ars Technica

Malware piggybacks on Windows’ Background Intelligent Transfer Service

When Windows Update downloads patches to a PC, it relies on a service called the Background Intelligent Transfer Service, or BITS. In a nutshell, BITS asynchronously downloads updates from Microsoft's ...
Bleeping Computer

Firefox to Use Windows BITS Service for Background Updates

In the near future Mozilla Firefox will utilize Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service, or BITS, to download software updates in the background. This is the first step in the eventual release ...
PC World

Check your BITS, because deleting malware might not be enough

Attackers are abusing the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to re-infect computers with malware after they’ve been already cleaned by antivirus products. The technique was ...
ZDNet

Attackers take advantage of Microsoft Windows BITS to serve malware

The Microsoft Windows BITS feature is being used to deliver and reinfect systems with malware even after an infection has been removed, researchers say. The Windows Background Intelligent Transfer ...
Ars Technica

WSUS BITS 2.0 release confusion

I'm a little confused on the BITS 2.0 packages that they have for WSUS clients<BR><BR>I've got three updates I'm a little confused about:<BR><BR>One from 3/25/05, "Update for Background Intelligent ...
CSOonline

Check your BITS, because deleting malware might not be enough

Attackers are abusing the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to re-infect computers with malware after they’ve been already cleaned by antivirus products. The technique was ...