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From: TREND1	4/2/2007 8:00:13 AM
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Posted by: khillo In reply to: None Date:4/2/2007 2:46:53 AM Post #of 140719 Microsoft's Ben Fathi's comment on tpm from last post. arnnet.com.au What that means is that today, if a rootkit makes it onto your machine, it can do a hyperjacking. It can take over the OS or it can even get underneath the OS so that any software you're running, like Kernel Patch Protection, won't even know that it's being lied to by a piece of malware underneath. What we want to do is put the hypervisor there and use things like the TPM chip to make sure that the entire boot path is protected and secure and we can trust it and it hasn't been tampered with. "Even trusted platform module [TPM] chips are useless against advanced rootkits, according to McGeorge. He said despite Microsoft's Ben Fathi's comments, TPMs are helpless to defend against hyperjacking, in which malware takes over an operating system negating software security applications like Kernel Patch Protection

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