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0wning Vista from the boot
Federico Biancuzzi, 2007-04-24

Federico Biancuzzi interviews Nitin and Vipin Kumar, authors of VBootkit, a rootkit that is able to load from Windows Vista boot-sectors. They discuss the "features" of their code, the support of the various versions of Vista, the possibility to place it inside the BIOS (it needs around 1500 bytes), and the chance to use it to bypass Vista's product activation or avoid DRM.

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life is not easy for anyone 2007-04-25
oh really?
We all like globalization, but really life is not easy for anyone. Too bad you dont have jobs of your own and need to steal ours. Now you decided to write malware to make more americans lives miserable. You will not get our sympathy, instead of writing malware, try being productive and get a real jo...

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