Talk:Blue Pill (software)

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Laced8


I tried references 3,4,5 and 6 and none of them would load or produce something that wasn't a 404. Reference 2 successfully linked to an article but it was just a random news release about a shipment of chips being 6-8 weeks delayed, nothing related to the reference description.

Reference 1 isn't a link but rather aDOI citation. This article has problems. -%%%% — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laced8 (talkcontribs) 11:37, 15 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Why is this article titled malware? It is a proof of concept of an exploit, not a malware. No party will be interested to install this particular program secretly on your computer, although they may use the idea to create a program that actually does something to generate them money. --84.178.109.58 00:46, 15 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

The definition on here for malware is "software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent", which I think sums this up pretty well (it does infiltrate the system). --Zootm 10:47, 27 November 2006 (UTC)Reply
According to the author of the Blue Pill it is not malware but a technology that will make it possible to introduce malware to the system.
The technology is also not OS-specific and could be used on any OS.
Here are some quotes from her blog (http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html and http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.html):
"There are number of ways of how Blue Pill could be exploited to create the actual malware (Blue Pill itself is just a "hijacking technology", not a malware)"
"I would like to make it clear, that the Blue Pill technology does not rely on any bug of the underlying operating system. I have implemented a working prototype for Vista x64, but I see no reasons why it should not be possible to port it to other operating systems, like Linux or BSD which can be run on x64 platform."

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The article is incomplete. Now that it's source was released, did those guys from 2007 ever run it against their detector suite? -- Sy / (talk) 00:44, 15 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

The "Red Pill" URL reference leads to an explanation of the Red/Blue pill concept as in the movie The Matrix, but not a similar software package as implied by the text. Tim-mnm (talk) 18:07, 12 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

Detecting virtualization != detecting Blue Pill

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No time to fix the article at the moment but see this blog post: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2007/08/virtualization-detection-vs-blue-pill.html

The page should be modified to reflect the point clarified there. —Jemmytc 19:39, 17 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

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