On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr <michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/39825?netht=rn_031809&nladname=031809
Details are rather sketchy, but it does sound ominous. This caught my eye: "... privilege escalation from Ring 0 to the SMM ..." Sounds like yet another reason to run as an regular user, not with administrator rights. (Ring 0 being supervisor mode on i386; Ring 3 is user mode, IIRC.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
