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CPU bug patch saga: Antivirus tools caught with their hands in the Windows cookie jar

Naselus

Re: Only M$

"Surely if MS do it then it's a supported call into kernel memory?"

I suspect that actually depends which bit of Microsoft makes the call. The Office team probably shouldn't be writing software that reaches into the kernel all the time (which they did quite a lot in the 90s and early 2000s).

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