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Vista DRM Prevents Kernel Tampering

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the in-theory-anyway dept.

mjdroner writes "A ZDNet blog reports on a new DRM feature for Vista that 'protects' the kernel from tampering. The blog quotes a Microsoft document: 'Code (CI) protects Windows Vista by verifying that system binaries haven't been tampered with by malicious code and by ensuring that there are no unsigned drivers running in kernel mode on the system.' The blog says that much of the DRM in Vista is simply a port from XP, but that this feature is new to the OS."

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  1. is Vista that fabled 8th generation OS? by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "From: (Blair P. Houghton)

    I predict that Eighth Generation computers
    will compile no programs, run no applications,
    and access no data. Instead they will be
    designed and tuned to give a continuously
    variable spectrum of elegant and precise
    error messages describing your failure to
    induce them to do so."

    Yay Vista!

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    stuff |
    1. Re:is Vista that fabled 8th generation OS? by ggalvao · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yay! One more barrier for open source free non-propietary drivers to jump over!

  2. Re:Not all drivers by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's a nasty cough you have there. I think you might've picked up a bug...