[olug] Windows 8

[Kevin]

I would like to submit a piece of evidence: Sony rootkits. Assume that
it was not a white hat that discovered it. Assume that a black hat
discovered the rootkit and didn't tell anyone because they wanted to
take advantage of a security flaw in the rootkit. Thus, through a
signed driver, writes are performed to a supposedly secure media.

How about instead of this, we perform recovery from a WORM(Write Once
Read Many) media, like CD-ROM? It doesn't have to be optical, but
would something like this work?

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 16:27, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> This partition, like the bootloader is sandboxed. The kernel forbids writing
> to it.
>
> And the bootloader prevents unsigned drivers from loading, which protects
> the kernel. Honestly, between the two, you have a fairly secure system.
> Windows is getting better. But that is why I'm not sure they really need
> Secure UEFI boot given that a non-infected system can't write to the
> bootloader.
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Jason N <dashrender at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> On this you have a point.  Assuming the system is restoring from a hidden
>> partition, how do you ensure that a virus doesn't get into the hidden
>> partition and come back on the reinstall?
>>
>>
>> ---- Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:03, Jason N <dashrender at cox.net> wrote:
>> > The ability to wipe the machine, yet save their settings, data and
>> programs is awesome for them.
>>
>> The one problem with that is that any virus is just another program.
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