you can 'trust a closed source software? The answer is obviously no and Skype is yet another demonstration living.
What if they do this utilizzatissimo VOIP telephony program information that are written in my BIOS? And 'what is this blogger also asked (from which I took the news).
As we realized this thing? Running Skype on Windows 64-bit you get an error similar to this:
The program or feature "\\? \\ C: \\ Documents and Settings \\ Myria \\ Local Settings \\ Temp \\ 12 \\ 1.com" can not start or Incompatibility with to run two 64-bit versions of Windows. Please contact the software vendor to ask if a 64-bit Windows compatible version is available.
disassembling the executable 1.com we could go back to what he did that code. In summary takes care of reading the BIOS information (including the serial motherboard) and send the information to Skype.
Thanks to a careless programmers of Skype this thing was discovered. If they were more 'experts and they knew that NTVDM (a layer that allows programs to run on Windows DOS/16bit 32bit in a transparent manner) was not implemented on Windows 64bit, this thing probably would never have emerged (or at at least not so easily).
Initially, some have argued that there may be a method to detect the type of processor and then decide if a PC is able or not to perform a certain statement (to avoid errors of execution). Too bad that there are methods much more 'portable to carry out this task and that the operating system provides all the necessary information without going to need to read data directly from the BIOS.
then what is this data? We'll see if the company wants in the coming days to clarify its position on this discovery.
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