* Roy Schestowitz fired off this tart reply:
> Does antivirus have a future?
>
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>| some additional possibilities. One is malware designed to sit under today's
>| virtual machines. A proof-of-concept paper proposing such an attack, called
>| Subvirt (PDF), appeared last year, written by three researchers from
>| Microsoft
See? Microsoft ain't so bad. They got hackers on staff.
>| and two from the University of Michigan. A presentation at last
>| year's Black Hat security conference from Joanna Rutkowska, a researcher at
>| Coseinc, a Singapore-based security company, covered a much leaner attack she
>| called Blue Pill, which targets the virtualisation built into Windows Vista
>| and into current processors from both AMD and Intel.
> `----
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/20/guardianweeklytechnologysection.spam
Here's another, unfortunately the link referred to in this article
refers to a source article that must be purchased:
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=16750
Virtualization in Vista: An Open Source Victory?
Source: Globe and Mail
Date Published: 6/1/2006 | Date Reviewed: 6/1/2006
TAKEAWAY: Microsoft is offering phone support for Linux. That's one
of the more eye-catching revelations in this piece about Virtual
Server R2, which marks Redmond's leap into the virtualization market.
A couple of Linux consultants quoted here say their customers
couldn't care less about running Windows and Linux on the same box; a
Microsoft manager says the functionality, set for full integration in
Vista, is of more interest to shops running legacy apps and other
enterprise concerns. This writer adds that Microsoft's embrace of
virtualization may illustrate that support for popular apps \u2014
such as open-source CMS systems \u2014 will trump allegiance to any
one OS camp.
Microsoft offering phone support for Linux? Wow!
Of course, it may simply involve the usual cross-vendor finger-pointing.
"Okay, here's what we'll do. First obtain your Windows vendor's
System Restore disk..."
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Tux rox!
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