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Re:Hackers accidentally give Microsoft their code by wccrawford on Friday August 27, 2010 @09:07AM (#1638689)
Actually, they check to see WHAT caused the crashed. In the case of a virus writer, that would be the virus' code. How could they not look at it? It IS directly related to the crash.
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Re:Hackers accidentally give Microsoft their code by jacquesm on Friday August 27, 2010 @11:49AM (#1639128)
The problem I have with that story is that there are a lot more people writing software for the MS platform than just the virus writers and I figure that if you add that all up the virus writers are a drop in the bucket.

So this applies to all developers, not just to the ones writing viruses.

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Re:Hackers accidentally give Microsoft their code by JBiserkov on Friday August 27, 2010 @12:15PM (#1639222)
True, but most developers aren't writing code that attempts to bypass Kernel Patch Protection[0]

[0]http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/kernel/64bitpatch_FAQ.m...

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