Talk:Blue Pill (malware)

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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)

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)

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."