Excy's Journal: New Escalation In The Malware War

The war for control of your computer may be about to enter a whole new level of complexity. Security researcher Joanna Rutkowska has announced that she has created technology which can subvert any computer operating system running on newer X64 hardware. This new technology, dubbed "Blue Pill", uses hardware virtualization support built into 64 bit AMD processors. With Blue Pill, an active operating system can be separated from the computer's hardware and placed into a virtual machine environment. Theoretically, Blue Pill also could work with 64 bit Intel processors that support hardware virtualization. http://www.spywareinfo.com/newsletter/archives/2006/july17.php#bluepill