 Researchers Create System Management Mode (smm) Rootkit |
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 May 12 2008, 08:36 AM
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QUOTE Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's chip, undetected by today's antivirus products. Called a System Management Mode (SMM) rootkit, the software runs in a protected part of a computer's memory that can be locked and rendered invisible to the operating system, but which can give attackers a picture of what's happening in a computer's memory.... http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=13016 -------------------- "THE BAD GUYS DON'T NEED A SEARCH WARRANT. ARE YOU PROTECTED?"
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May 24 2008, 01:55 AM
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Thats kinda scary :/
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