Method for isolating third party pre-boot firmware from...

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Control technique

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C711S152000, C711S202000, C713S002000

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07827371

ABSTRACT:
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for determining if an isolation driver is present and a processor supports virtualization, launching the isolation driver in a first privilege level different than a system privilege level and user privilege level, creating a 1:1 virtual mapping between a virtual address and a physical address, using the isolation driver, and controlling access to a memory page using the isolation driver. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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patent: 7082509 (2006-07-01), Zimmer et al.
patent: 7103529 (2006-09-01), Zimmer
patent: 7260848 (2007-08-01), Zimmer
U.S. Appl. No. 12/156,223, filed May 30, 2008, entitled “Enabling Byte-Code Base Image Isolation,” by Jiewen Yao, et al.
U.S. Appl. No. 11/601,321, filed Nov. 16, 2006, entitled “Methods and Apparatus for Defeating Malware,” by Vincent J. Zimmer, et al.

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