Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and technical information

Re:Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and techn... by endymi0n on Sunday July 25, 2021 @06:18AM (#27948100)

I‘m on Mac and Linux since 10 years now, but Sysinternals is the one thing that kept me on Windows for the 10 years before as a hacker. It was the first thing that landed on any new machine and let me learn and debug so many things about my computer.

Microsoft did the right thing to assimilate them, the guy behind was top notch and I remember them fondly.

Don‘t know how they evolved the last decade though.

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Re:Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and techn... by xtracto on Sunday July 25, 2021 @10:21AM (#27949360)

Ditto here. And Russinovic was the one who revealed the infamous sony rootkit using these tools IIRC. Great memories of my time when I used Windows.

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Re:Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and techn... by hulitu on Sunday July 25, 2021 @10:24AM (#27949383)

So that's why RootkitRevealer does not work with newer versions of Windows.

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Re:Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and techn... by ssabetan on Sunday July 25, 2021 @03:24PM (#27952114)

My understanding is that RootkitRevealer is no longer being maintained since it was being used by malware authors to evade detections. The age old cat and mouse game.

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Re:Windows Sysinternals: advanced system utilities and techn... by vsto on Sunday July 25, 2021 @10:14AM (#27949305)

True that. The guy was top notch indeed and is now CTO of Azure.

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