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Beware the Image File Execution Options key

December 19, 2005 Dec 19, 2005 12/19/05

Raymond Chen

Beware the Image File Execution Options key (more). Its power can be used for evil as well as for good. Its intended use is to force a program to run under a debugger regardless of how it is launched (and secondarily to alter how the system treats the program). It's handy if you need to debug a program "in the wild" rather than under the ...