RE: eWeek: Government-Funded Startup Blasts Rootkits

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

It was a hardware antivirus.

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 Blanchard_Michael () emc com wrote:

>  It Thunderbyte similliar to the Apple II card CopyIIplus?  I remember years ago there that CopyIIplus card that 
> would copy any program disk to disk I believe, regardless of copy protection too  :-)
>
>
> Michael P. Blanchard 
> Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
> Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
> EMC ² Corporation 
> 4400 Computer Dr. 
> Westboro, MA 01580 
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Drsolly
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 2:17 PM
> To: Larry Seltzer
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: RE: [funsec] eWeek: Government-Funded Startup Blasts Rootkits
>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Larry Seltzer wrote:
>
> > > > PCI card malware dection, I like it!
> >
> > It sounded like there was also a software approach they were taking, but
> > from the information provided it's hard to see how it differs from solutions
> > by Sysinternals and F-Secure. But the people involved are legit.
> >
> > Someone explain to me how a PCI card is supposed to be able to tell the
> > difference between legitimate and illegitimate access to system files.
>  
> Remember Thunderbyte?
>
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