RE: eWeek: Government-Funded Startup Blasts Rootkits

[Kevin McAleavey <kevinmca () nsclean com>]

 Aw fer krimminy's sake! *I* have the cure right here! All we'se gotta do is feed 12 volts from the cable to the write 
head driver amplier transistor and blow it to phuck ... THEN the drive becomes "for real" "read-only" and nothing bad 
can happen!

 Supply a paper tape drive and if you REALLY want to save data for posterior, five holes or seven (with parity) ... 
GIRD IT UP, MAN! GEEZ! heh.

At 06:32 PM 4/26/06, Drsolly wrote:
> It was a hardware antivirus.
>
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 Blanchard_Michael () emc com wrote:
>
> >  It Thunderbyte similliar to the Apple II card CopyIIplus?  I remember years ago there that CopyIIplus card that 
> > would copy any program disk to disk I believe, regardless of copy protection too  :-)
> >
> >
> > Michael P. Blanchard 
> > Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
> > Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
> > EMC ² Corporation 
> > 4400 Computer Dr. 
> > Westboro, MA 01580 
> >  
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Drsolly
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 2:17 PM
> > To: Larry Seltzer
> > Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> > Subject: RE: [funsec] eWeek: Government-Funded Startup Blasts Rootkits
> >
> > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Larry Seltzer wrote:
> >
> > > > > PCI card malware dection, I like it!
> > >
> > > It sounded like there was also a software approach they were taking, but
> > > from the information provided it's hard to see how it differs from solutions
> > > by Sysinternals and F-Secure. But the people involved are legit.
> > >
> > > Someone explain to me how a PCI card is supposed to be able to tell the
> > > difference between legitimate and illegitimate access to system files.
> >  
> > Remember Thunderbyte?
> >
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