freak out now: Security guru denounces antivirus, antispyware as useless, creates Blue Pill root kit to prove it
Happy Halloween and if this story is true, what a scary Halloween we’re in for.
Never mind the bugs in software.
Who cares about a little crash in Firefox or Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7.0 IE7.
Computer security guru Joanna Rutkowska created an undetectable rootkit (Blue Pill) which penetrated Windows Vista.
[PC Magazine] more: Vista kernel fix ‘worse than useless’
- Hackers Break Into Hospital Computer System ‘Akron Children’s Hospital is notifying about 230,000 patients …’ [Ohio News Network]
- Security company claims Vista’s PatchGuard cracked [Ars Technica] I(f security companies are terrified that Microsoft plans to compete with them by touting its ‘One Care‘ service to customers, they haven’t got much to worry about..)
And to think I signed up for a family license of 2 more years of my favorite firewall/antispyware company: OutPost Pro
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1 opinion for freak out now: Security guru denounces antivirus, antispyware as useless, creates Blue Pill root kit to prove it
YoungGeezer
Oct 31, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Thanks, Mary, this is a really interesting post. I read the interview with Joanna Rutkowska, I hadn’t heard of her before. I’m going to rethink some of my anti-malware tactics now. The graphics are cute too.
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