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Is Vista kernel patch protection effective?
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Last week Microsoft’s vice-president of security technology was gadding round Europe briefing 
people on new capabilities in the forthcoming [tag]Windows Vista[/tag]. We didn’t have much time so our discussion focused on the ideas behind [tag]Kernel Patch Protection[/tag] (KPP).
In case you haven’t come across it yet, KPP is a feature of the 64bit versions of Vista that should help to prevent rootkits from taking hold of your system. Or at least, that is the idea.
Rootkits hit the headlines recently following a gaffe by Sony. The firm distributed CDs by Neil Diamond and other artists which carried anti-copying software that used rootkit techniques to hide itself when the CD was inserted in a PC. Sony’s move probably seemed like a good idea at the time, but has since attracted criticism because the software opened back doors that were then exploited. Is Vista kernel patch protection effective? - IT Week
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