Hardware Virtualization Check Utility

re: Hardware Virtualization Check Utility

tomwu — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:01:45 GMT

WDK's detectvp can be used to check whether the system has all the right BIOS settings enabled to support the Viridian hypervisor.

re: Hardware Virtualization Check Utility

Stephen — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:26:46 GMT

I'm not sure about the accuracy of the information provided by the SecurAble utility - I tried it on my Acer Travelmate 8210 (http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/tm8210.htm) and it tells me that, "Yes", I have Hardware Virtualization.

In reality, the Intel-VT is disabled on the 8210 (and there isn't an option in the current version of the BIOS to enable it).

re: Hardware Virtualization Check Utility

dre — Wed, 23 May 2007 03:47:56 GMT

I wish it also detected the presence of TPM.

also - hardware DEP, in windows xp and 2003 is vulnerable to the skywing/skape techniques published in the uninformed journal. microsoft's fix is typical, "upgrade to vista".

the underground hacker community has picked up on this and made it trivial. not only do the popular exploitation engines support the breaking of hardware DEP (CORE, ImmunitySec, MetaSploit), but I have even seen videos on milw0rm showing how to re-write an exploit in minutes using a tool like MSF-xB.

Shame on Microsoft and GRC!

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Dugie's Pensieve — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:51:50 GMT

Lots has been happening lately, but all that is for another post. Here are some recent Virtualization