Kaspersky Reveals the Fundamental Vulnerability of Vista PatchGuard
Kaspersky regards the Kernel Patch Protection introduced in 64-bit Windows Vista as a joke. Alisa Shevchenko, Virus analyst, Kaspersky Lab, claims that PatchGuard can “hardly be viewed as providing serious protection against rootkits.†In this context, Kaspersky has revealed that the Windows Vista kernel, for 64-bit platforms only, is just “allegedly†immune to modifications. “It is, by its very nature, vulnerable, as is demonstrated by the existence of documented methods for disabling protection....