Researchers create undetectable rootkit

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RichieUK

Posted 5/12/2008 6:05 AM

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SMM rootkit runs in protected system memory
Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's chip, undetected by today's antivirus products.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=13016

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