[Info-vax] Malware in kernel mode, was: Re: Android development Was Re: OT: Larry Ellison takes retirement as CEO of Oracle

[JF Mezei]

On 14-09-25 13:17, Simon Clubley wrote:

> It would do this by directly writing to the hardware registers as
> the way you access the hardware is the same regardless of operating
> system.

This assumes that your process has write access to memory locations that
are mapped to hardware so that you can talk directly to hardware, or
that you are Mr VAXman and run everytrhing in kernel mode all the time.