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Re:Disguised “AMD PCI Driver” enables executable-specific hacks by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday May 16, 2021 @04:50AM (#27172255)
Anyone who's read Raymond Chen's blog, or ever encountered MKCOMPAT.EXE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Compatible), will know that Windows is full of application-specific hacks to maintain compatibility. I suspect every complex system component has something similar for the same reasons. I doubt it's for any nefarious purpose.
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Re:Disguised “AMD PCI Driver” enables executable-specific hacks by fennecfoxen on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:45AM (#27173003)
It doesn't need to be nefarious to be bad for you. It can merely supply security vulnerabilities.
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Re:Disguised “AMD PCI Driver” enables executable-specific hacks by j4yav on Sunday May 16, 2021 @05:22AM (#27172408)
Why obfuscate it inside of a decoy driver?
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