New Rootkit Bypasses Windows Code-Signing Security

Trailrunner7 writes "In recent versions of Windows, specifically Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft has introduced a number of new security features designed to prevent malicious code from running. But attackers are continually finding new ways around those protections, and the latest example is a rootkit that can bypass the Windows driver-signing protection."

Comments

But can TDL4 bypass Safe Mode?

[digitaldc]

Safe Mode is all I run nowadays.
I am just too scared to 'Start Windows Normally'

Re:But can TDL4 bypass Safe Mode?

[Monkeedude1212]

It's weird, when I tried the "Last Known Good" configuration it booted up Windows 98!

Acceptable and Proper Slashdot Vocabulary

[h00manist]

Welcome to Eleven Thousandth Slash Dot Dot Org's and Cambridge International Language Forum! We shall henceforth debate the propriety of linguistic terms to be used by ourselves, and other participants of the public at large, within the realm of our debate on all matters relating to the technical world - including those of impact in non-technically-literate circles of society. We will here discuss the proper use of verbs and nouns, adverbs and adjectives, phrasal verbs and colloquial terms, and vote on their acceptability to be assembled into a properly approved vocabulary for use on this most honourable forum in all of geekdom, Slashdot! Our first items approved on the agenda today -

Acceptable vocabulary for use within Slashdot fora

boxen, facetious plural of box (by analogy to oxen as the plural form of ox), particularly in computer hacker slang with respect to the term 'box' for a computer

Non-acceptable vocabulary for use within Slashdot fora

Virii is in fact an INCORRECT pluralization of "virus", however, some retard keeps resubmitting it as the plural form. 1 4m k00l, 1 c4n wr173 l33tz0r 'virii' 1n v15u4l b451c 5cr1p7.. ph33r m3h.

Further submissions for today's Slashdot Approved Vocabulary vote?