The news is not new, and runs the network for some weeks.
Al HITB - " Hack In The Box Security Conference " held in Dubai last April, the end of "security Researchers" have shown that using a program is only 3 Kb can take possession of a system installed with the latest version of the next OS of Redmond.
VBootkit 2.0 , created by researchers Nitin Kumar and Vipin , was used to demonstrate how to take control of a PC installed with Windows 7 , during Boot.
The program is capable of providing a possible Hacker the administrator privileges, so you can have total control on the machine, also the special software that is able to access a system without a trace of his presence and, in a hypothetical escalation of privileges, could execute unsigned code at the kernel level.
The alarming fact is that, as stated by Vipin: " There is no way to solve the problem. It can not be resolved. E ' a design problem. "The program exploits a vulnerability of the system to boot to Windows 7 that can only be resolved completely redesigned . Furthermore, to exploit the bug not require any changes files on your hard drive, so you can not find it through a classic antivirus / antimalware.
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