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Vista Protected Processes Bypassed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the falling-confidence-levels dept.

Anonymous Hero writes "Security Researcher Alex Ionescu strikes again, this time with a proof of concept program that will arbitrarily enable and foremost disable the protection of so-called 'protected processes' in Windows Vista. Not only threatening Vista DRM and friends, it's also another step towards hardened and even more annoying malware. Normally, only specially signed processes made by special companies (decided by Microsoft) can be protected, but now the bad guys can protect any evil process they want, including the latest version of their own keylogger, spambot, or worm, as well as unprotect any 'good' one."

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  1. No reason to run Vista by JackMeyhoff · · Score: 1, Troll

    Outside of being forced to use it at work, at home it brings nothing of VALUE.

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    http://www.rense.com/general79/wdx1.htm
  2. Non-news by Toreo+asesino · · Score: 0, Troll

    The tool need Admin priveledges to work, and guess what you can do with that? Yes! Anything you like! The same goes for Linux too - oddly, with root access you too can do/inject/patch anything at all too.

    Tags like: 'haha, defectivebydesign' Show how immature and unwilling to be unbiased some of you lot are. Shame on you. /endRant

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    throw new NoSignatureException();
  3. Re:In related news by udippel · · Score: 0, Troll

    I rather liken Vista to WinME. But every time I say so, someone chimes in saying Vista is the best thing Microsoft ever did or that Vista sales have set new records here or there or somewhere.

    True, amazing and pretty recent.
    I bet Microsoft has some whores lurking around, being paid for bulwarking criticism of Vista.

    I don't even doubt that some users are satisfied with it, but they wouldn't usually sit around just waiting to 'share' their positive experiences with the Slashdot crowd. There are, on the other hand, Apple fanboys who do just that.
    But MACs are good enough to create a followship, keen on being fanboyish in here. Vista isn't.

  4. Re:In related news by udippel · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did you notice that they aren't here today? :)

    It is a Sunday. They're off to the great cathedral of Redmond, worshipping the Master of The Chairs.

    Oh wait, there is an emergency poster around:
    http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=229863&cid= 18647371