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Defending Against New Rootkits That Beat BSD, Linux, Mac, Vista,
From:Joe Klemmer
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:25:20 -0400

Defending Against New Rootkits That Beat BSD, Linux, Mac, Vista, AMD and
Intel
8/8/06 @12:41 in Feature Stories by BJ Gillette

“The idea behind Blue Pill is simple,” says Joanna Rutkowska of
invisible things. “Your operating system swallows the Blue Pill and it
awakes inside the Matrix.”

No reboot is necessary. Everything appears to work as always… but it’s
really under new management. Rutkowska’s Blue Pill hypervisor rootkit is
calling the shots.

Rutkowska claims that, even with Blue Pill code in hand, you can’t
detect it.

http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/08/08/defending-against-new-rootkits-that-beat-bsd-linux-mac-vista-amd-and-intel/