Let users virtualize Vista because hypervisor rootkits are no threat
Several weeks ago, reports surfaced that the threat of super-sophisticated “hypervisor malware”
was preventing Microsoft from allowing their Windows Vista Home Edition operating system from running within virtualization software
. Now, Microsoft may have a lot of good reasons for restricting Vista virtualization. But hypervisor malware shouldn’t be one of them, and at this year’s Black Hat security conference, a team of researchers including myself, Nate Lawson from Root Labs, and Peter Ferrie from Symantec will take the stage to prove it.
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