VXer fighters get new stealth weapon in war of the (mal)wares

A bare-metal analysis tool developed by University of California researchers promises to help tip the battle between virus writers and black hats by cloaking malware investigation efforts. The tool is the latest weapon in the war between the diaspora of independent and vendor malware researchers and their VXer foes. Their …

[bill 36]

question

Whats a registry?

[adnim]

Re: question

A registry is a flock of Register staff.

[Paul 129]

Thats cruel

You just compared a pack of drunken hacks, with a system designed by power drunk hacks...

Oh! Clever! Have a thunbs up

[bill 36]

Re: Thats cruel

ha ha

both of you

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: question

"Whats a registry?"

It's a more modern version of legacy text based configuration files, but based on a btrieve database for speed / scalability and includes distributed network access, granular auditing and access control capabilities.

[Mark 85]

Maybe it's just me....

But the first two paragraphs set the tone that this tool was for the bad guys: "A bare-metal analysis tool developed by University of California researchers promises to help tip the battle between virus writers and black hats by cloaking malware investigation efforts." and "The tool is the latest weapon in the war between the diaspora of independent and vendor malware researchers and their VXer foes."

It was only when I got down to paragraph 12 that it was clear that this tool was for the "good guys". I then re-read it what in mind and it made more sense. Sheeesh....

[dotdavid]

So...

Once known, the means to detect such artifacts is coded into the next generation of malware allowing it to appear harmless in the eyes of security researchers and anti-virus vendors.

Could we have an anti-malware tool that makes your system look like it belongs to a security researcher then? ;-)