[rlmorel]

Interesting. Check out this link: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001393.html

This has been simmering since around since 2008, but seems to be exactly this type of thing. Very sophisticated, yet simple. Encrypted so it doesn’t have a footprint, residing in sectors on your drive that your OS doesn’t recognize, etc.

This link: http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_fighting_viruses_defending_the_net.html

is also interesting...I really detest the TED people, they are as liberal as the day is long, but this guy, Mikko Hypponen relates some very interesting stuff on viruses, malware and Internet crime.

Very interesting...I highly recommend it, even with the socialist bent at the end where he suggests getting jobs for programmers who haven’t gone criminal yet...(haha, what a laugher THAT idea is)

[InterceptPoint]

Thanks for the links. The MBR replacement scheme looks really scary to me. I’m not sure how you deal with that.

And the TED video was quite good. If you watched closely you would have heard him say that they can now embed malware in a .jpg. Click on the .jpg and infect your computer. Yikes.

I like TED despite it’s obvious leftist tilt. Very professionally done. Actually a valuable resource.