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Vista DRM features could bedevil antivirus
Saturday, October 14th, 2006
A security researcher is raising concerns about a digital rights management feature in Microsoft’s 
new Vista operating system that he claims may make it easy for malicious code authors to block virus programs from removing their wares.
In a presentation to antivirus researchers at the annual Virus Bulletin Conference in Montreal, Canada, Aleksander Czarnowski of the Polish firm AVET Information and Network Security, said that a new Vista feature, dubbed "protected processes," which provides digital rights management functionality in Vista, could be abused to protect rootkits and other malicious code. Vista’s DRM features could bedevil antivirus - Network World
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