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Latest hack for Windows 7 is run by a small software called VBootkit 2.0 which is just 3Kb in size and researchers Vipin Kumar and Nitin Kumar claim this hack to be “unfixable”. 

“There’s no fix for this. It cannot be fixed. It’s a design problem,” Vipin Kumar said, explaining the software exploits the Windows 7 assumption that the boot process is safe from attack.

This is how the hack works, the program VBootKit 2.0 during the boot time, loads itself into the system memory and bypasses the hard drive altogether, making it extremely difficult to detect. Because nothing is changed on the hard disk itself, VBootkit 2.0 is hard to detect. 

 

Once the software is loaded onto the memory, any ill-intentioned attacker can access all data, change passwords, install softwares to remotely control the PC. However, when the victim’s computer is rebooted, VBootkit 2.0 will lose its hold over the computer as data contained in system memory will be lost.

 

 

While, Microsoft works on to fix the “unfixable”, one thing which can certainly give you some piece of mind, is the fact that in order to initiate such an attack, the attacker needs to have physical access to your PC. Though, once the attack is performed, he can certainly control your PC remotely.

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