Blue Pill Myth Debunked

njyoder writes "As previously posted about, Joanna Rutkowska claimed to have discovered an allegedly undetectable vulnerability in Vista that takes advantage of AMD cpu's virtualization capabilities. a virtualization professional (Anthony Liguori of the Xen project) has now voiced his opinion to state this is bunkum. There are two parts two this — the ability to take over the machine and seamlessly drop the OS into a VM (which is very difficult, but possible) and the ability to have windows run in the VM undetectably (which is impossible). In fact, Rutkowska's prototype is VERY detectable. This is unfortunate mistake that people make when they jump to conclusions based on what is unfounded speculation and that includes the assumption that this would somehow be Vista specific, if it worked (noting that Vista doesn't run with administrator privileges by default)."

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I always take

[Anonymous Coward]

the red pill but I still wake up in hell each morning ... Vista will be shipping.

Re:Detection-My buddy, the program.

[ElleyKitten]

Actually, I think most people would be able to detect it when it fails utterly to work, and instead performs a quick BSD.

BSOD. Unless Vista has a special feature where it will randomly install BSD over itself. That would be the best Windows ever!

'two' does not equal 'too'

[Anonymous Coward]

- grammar is pretty bad on /., eh?

Am I the only one...

[bquickfoo]

Am I the only person that thought this posting was going to be about Viagra? Must just be the email I've been getting lately.

Re:Detection-My buddy, the program.

[rdoger6424]

so vista will install BSD while it's dying?