The Old New Thing

It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Replacing a service binary

September 7, 2022 Sep 7, 2022 09/7/22

Raymond Chen

Looking for misconfigured services.

2022 mid-year link clearance

June 30, 2022 Jun 30, 2022 06/30/22

Raymond Chen

Another accumulation of stuff.

Starting on the other side of the airtight hatchway: Attacking the batch file parser

June 27, 2022 Jun 27, 2022 06/27/22

Raymond Chen

Why stop at denial of service when you have remote code execution?

Assessing a read-after free for security implications: The string comparison

June 3, 2022 Jun 3, 2022 06/3/22

Raymond Chen

Can you get elevation? What are you disclosing?

Now that computers have more than 4MB of memory, can we get seconds on the taskbar?

April 11, 2022 Apr 11, 2022 04/11/22

Raymond Chen

Letting the CPU go to sleep.

Why is every other line of my file mysteriously changed to nonsense Chinese characters?

March 28, 2022 Mar 28, 2022 03/28/22

Raymond Chen

Decoding another type of mojibake.

Why does the Windows debugger engine show a bunch of hex digits after one of the DLL names?

January 31, 2022 Jan 31, 2022 01/31/22

Raymond Chen

It's trying to disambiguate name collisions.

2021 year-end link clearance

December 31, 2021 Dec 31, 2021 12/31/21

Raymond Chen

Another trip around the sun.