Owning Vista from the boot : scary stuff

[CougTek]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/26/vbootkit_authors_interview/

This is bad.

 

[ddrueding]

Not that bad. You need physical access to the machine, or to have PXE enabled. And most BIOS have a boot sector protection switch in them.

Of course, the default is disabled, and PXE is enabled sometimes as default, but it's not that bad...