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User Mode Component of the Filter Manager

Someone sent me an e-mail asking about the user mode component of the Filter Manager. Since I am still not feeling well I won't be writing an entry covering it right now, but you can take a look at this presentation . It is a pretty simple overview of

Programming While Ill

First of all, I am still sick, but I wanted to at least write something. So, I thought I would write about something that is bugging me right now. In all of my previous jobs I could work while I was sick; I got things done a little bit slower, but stuff

Sorry for the lack of posts...

I apologize for not posting much the last couple weeks. A lot of stuff has been on the back burner because I have been having some medical issues and am going through a bunch of testing. They don't know what it is for sure yet, but I'm hoping it is something

How dangerous are kernel mode rootkits?

This post was originally going to be a comment in response to rootbeer's question in a comment to my last blog entry, but it became such a long reply that I decided to make it a post. The question was: “How dangerous are kernel-level rootkits today?”

What do you want to know about the Windows kernel?

I am by no means a kernel expert, but I do have a couple years of experience working with the Windows kernel and I have done a fair amount of reading about the internals of Windows and operating system development in general. And of course I have looked