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You're suggesting a construction like Blue Pill[0], right, where you have a "malware hypervisor"? The concept is known, security people are aware, it's considered moderately infeasible, and multiple techniques can prevent it[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software) [1] http://northsecuritylabs.blogspot.com/2008/06/catching-blue-...



That mitigation technique relies on the anti-malware executable starting before the malware does.




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