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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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Move along, nothing new to see here 2007-04-27
Gordon Fecyk
So you start the machine with a special disk of some kind. Just as the authors pointed out, this is decades old.

How to beat this? Disable booting from other media, or just remove the other drives. How to prevent a BIOS reset? Rivet the case shut already, or buy a padlock for the lock loop on...

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