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I love 2:58's reference to the Sony rootkit scandal:

> It’s never safe to unload a driver that patches the system call table since some thread might be just about to execute the first instruction of a hooked function when the driver unloads; if that happens the thread will jump into invalid memory.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/...



Thank you, that was a great read.




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