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0wning Vista from the boot
By Federico Biancuzzi

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.

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/442