The devil is in the DeepSAFE detail

There was something of a media feeding frenzy over the announcement from McAfee during the FOCUS 2011 conference in Las Vegas yesterday that it has, with a little help and a lot of cash from Intel, developed the technology to stop and remediate the kind of advanced stealth behaviour executed by rootkits. Having spent the last 20 years of my professional life emerged in IT security issues, one way or another, I am perhaps a tad more skeptical than most when it comes to such announcements.