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Posted by Todd H. on June 6, 2007, 1:36 am
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> Does anyone know of a way to mitigate or totally eliminate the risks
> of firewire and PCMCIA direct memory access on a running Windows XP
> system that has the keyboard/mouse/screen locked out?
>
> Everything I've ever read has said just live with the risk because
> there's nothing you can do about it. Some have suggested just plugging
> the ports with epoxy. That's not a good solution and can probably be
> bypassed.
>
> The problem seems to be that no matter how diligent you are, there's
> no software solution to this. These ports have direct access to RAM,
> so they can do virtually anything to your system. I'm sure there's a
> solution out there, but I have yet to run accross it.
I read an article in eweek about some software based solutions out
there that seek to mitigate these issues.
I'll be damned if I can find it though.
Okay, I found something familiar. There's a mention of Safend's Port
Protector product in this article, but it's aging.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1840131,00.asp
I think similar other products exist, but that's about all I can tell
ya. Might be something to look into anyway.
Physical access to a machine has always been where the buck stops
though... it's just scary how quickly a machine can be infected with a
USB port open...
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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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