Winternals (sysinternals) bought by MS

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A much hyped scare or not?
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I don't think so. The article also points out that the concept isn't
entirely new and others have created similar rootkits. Here's the "Blue
Pill" article:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1983037,00.asp

Aside from what I've already said, it says this:

"...The idea of a virtual machine rootkit isn't entirely new. Researchers
at Microsoft Research and the University of Michigan have created a
VM-based rootkit called "SubVirt" that is nearly impossible to detect
because its state cannot be accessed by security software running in the
target system."

I see I had it wrong on the target OS. The prototype has been tested on a
Vista beta and is targeted at Vista, not XP.
Whatever, somehow I feel that I'm not gonna loose a night's sleep over
that, for a while. :)
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I don't much worry about it because I check my systems using a bootable
CD. That way the OS doing the checking runs independently of whatever's on
the hard drive. However it's going to be a real PITA for users in general.
 
but given the way MS
tries to force everybody into using each new version of a file system
they come out with, one could see where they wouldn't like this utility.
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MS doesn't like anything "NIH" (not invented here) but, unlike a lot
of other companies who just won't buy the concept from an outsider, MS
buys the concept, the company that invented it, the principals of that
company ... and buries the whole thing. If it costs them a few
million to do it, who cares? They'll just up the price of the new
version. It's not like you can buy the latest version of Windows from
someone else.
 
På Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:34:39 +0200, skrev John Corliss
On another note, I see that FAT32 for Windows NT 4.0:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Fat32.html

is no longer available. The page is there, the download is 404ed. Don't
know how long this program has been unavailable, but given the way MS
tries to force everybody into using each new version of a file system
they come out with, one could see where they wouldn't like this utility.
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I've searched in vain for the latest version.
But it's included in this package(quote from the signature chet elsewhere
here on acf):

"The GRC server has a single master ZIP of all utilities pulled
from SysInternals earlier this morning. Anyone wishing to grab
a single *large* (21,713,059 byte) zip file containing the
entire contents of the SysInternals "files" directory may do so
here:
http://www.GRC.com/miscfiles/SysInternals_07_18_06.zip"
 
På Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:34:39 +0200, skrev John Corliss
On another note, I see that FAT32 for Windows NT 4.0:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Fat32.html

is no longer available. The page is there, the download is 404ed. Don't
know how long this program has been unavailable, but given the way MS
tries to force everybody into using each new version of a file system
they come out with, one could see where they wouldn't like this utility.
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Please ignore my first answer.
I tried again just now, and it's working. :-)
 
JP said:
I've searched in vain for the latest version.
But it's included in this package(quote from the signature chet
elsewhere here on acf):

"The GRC server has a single master ZIP of all utilities pulled
from SysInternals earlier this morning. Anyone wishing to grab
a single *large* (21,713,059 byte) zip file containing the
entire contents of the SysInternals "files" directory may do so
here:
http://www.GRC.com/miscfiles/SysInternals_07_18_06.zip"
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I'm afraid Gibson has changed that file to only include that short text
message listing the utilities. He must have been contacted by
Sysinternals OR MS and told to desist from distributing their utilities.
 
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