, 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.

osd pwnz j00
Wasnt this punked out on rootkit 6 months ago? Or was that every other bootloader that is exactly the same. There is only so many ways you can kick start an os :p...
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