Intel turning to hardware for rootkit detection

[ljknews at mac.com (ljknews)]

At 10:54 AM -0500 12/13/05, Kenneth R. van Wyk wrote:
> FYI, eWeek has an interesting article on Intel's "System Integrity Services," 
> which aims to add hardware level protection against rootkits.  Now, it seems 
> to me that they're bundling all sorts of nasty critters in with their 
> definition of "rootkit" but it's worth reading, IMHO.  
>
> The detection mechanism seems to primarily be looking primarily for non-OS 
> software modifying OS inhabited memory blocks.  Wonder how they're definining 
> (and maintaining the definition) of each...  I also wonder how it'll impact 
> near-OS software installations like, say, device drivers, authentication 
> plug-ins, and other things that need to poke pretty deeply into the OS in 
> order to install.
>
> Anyway, here's a URL to the article.
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1900533,00.asp

Gee this sounds just like virus wars, using add-on products to make
up for weakness in the operating system.

A reliable operating system would not permit such modifications in
the first place
-- 
Larry Kilgallen