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Dwarden
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Hardware virtualization based threats
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July 10, 2006, 04:15:19 PM »
New type of threats on horizont ... this time utilizing AMD hardware integrated virtualizations technology ...
For starter read e.g.
http://seclists.org/lists/isn/2006/Jun/0137.html
and there are tons others articles on this theme ... also rumours about similar "tries" for Intel like tech
any word from Alwil staff if they keep eye on it and preparing defense
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Re: Hardware virtualization based threats
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Please see
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=21945.0
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From what i know you can disable Pacifica (most of home users certanly don't need it).
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