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Boot Record Rootkit Threatens Vista, XP, NT

Posted by kdawson on from the writing-to-zero dept.

Paul sends us word on a new exploit seen in the wild that attacks Windows systems completely outside of the control of the OS. "Unfortunately, all the Windows NT family (including Vista) still have the same security flaw — MBR [Master Boot Record] can be modified from usermode. Nevertheless, MS blocked write-access to disk sectors from userland code on VISTA after the pagefile attack, however, the first sectors of disk are still unprotected... At the end of 2007 stealth MBR rootkit was discovered by MR Team members (thanks to Tammy & MJ) and it looks like this way of affecting NT systems could be more common in near future if MBR stays unprotected."

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  1. Re:Like it matters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is it true that everybody loves ramen?

  2. Re:Like it matters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the slashdot discussion system is such a load of bullshit, I don't really care what people think. I've been up and down between -1 and +2 about 3 times now.
    that's because you're a retard. you don't actually think about what you are saying. just look at the comments you've made lately:

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    if they ever want to improve their crappy economy, they should all just learn english. In case you haven't noticed, every country that does international business has like 50% of the people know fluent english. Plus who the heck else in the world uses cyrillic?
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  3. Re:Like it matters by ILuvRamen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you're posting at a 0 too so why would I take advice from you? I've gotten first posts marked as Redundant twice. I've gotten 100% on topic posts rated off topic. I've gotten unrated posts modded "overrated". And if I say anything good about Microsoft I get modded a troll. The whole system is a joke.

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  4. Re:Like it matters by Fizzl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Repeat after me, Slashdot is not a game! Slashdot is not a game.
    Stop thinking about the fucking moderation, take your head out of your arse and try to post coherent, intelligent and interesting posts with something non-trivial content. Alternatively, shut the fuck up.

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