Anti-Rootkit Security Beyond the OS 176
Orome1 writes "Cybercriminals know how to evade current operating systems-based security, demanding a new paradigm – security beyond the operating system. On that note, McAfee demonstrated the workings of its new McAfee DeepSAFE technology at the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday. Co-developed with Intel, it allows McAfee to develop hardware-assisted security products to take advantage of a 'deeper' security footprint. It sits beyond the operating system and close to the silicon, and by operating beyond the OS, it provides a direct view of system memory and processor activity."
Ohhh (Score:2, Informative)
Scary.
Re:So I have to ask (Score:-1, Informative)
Why doesn't McAfee just write an OS?
what do you think this is?
That just sounds like another level to infect (Score:2, Informative)
Just like ring 0 and ring -1 have been abuse, I'm pretty sure that in a few years, we'll read headlines "New persistent rookit infects McAfee DeepSafe"!
better idea (Score:2, Informative)
hammer a nail through the cpu it'll kill all the vira, and it will still have more computing power left than if it was running McAfee ...
turtles (Score:3, Informative)
it's turtles all the way down!