The perils of security tools

2008-05-13 Thread Ben Laurie
[Moderator's note: A quick reminder: please use ASCII except if you need Unicode to spell your name right. Microsoft's proprietary quote marks are not a standard and don't look right on non-Microsoft displays. I edited them out of this by hand. --Perry] Debian have a stunning example of how blind

Re: root kits in SMM mode

2008-05-13 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2008-05-12, Perry E. Metzger wrote: I'd been wondering for years when someone would set malware up to run in systems management mode on x86 processors. Now someone has done it: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145703/hackers_find_a_new_place_to_hide_rootkits.html In the infor