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Re: 'Vitriol' Rootkit to Demo at MS BlueHat Hacker Summit


From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:22:14 -0700

Dude VanWinkle wrote:
In the last thread about this we learned that turning off the VM
capabilities on a machine will  disable this payload. If it holds true
for this one as well then it would seem this VM technology should only
be enabled on machines that need it, while the rest of people should
disable this feature, if it isnt disabled already (its turned off by
default in Optiplexs' BIOS, not sure about other brands).

I believe having the VM software's hypervisor loaded will prevent other hypervisors from loading.

                                        BB
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