this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024

1283 points (99.4% liked)

Programmer Humor

19706 readers

124 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

1283

Malware As A Service (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

96 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] joshcodes 2 points 4 months ago

Not who you asked, but did you ever hear of Valiant and their kernel level anti cheat.

This is not a 1:1 comparison but anticheat software running in the kernel has the ability to monitor all other processes due to its permission levels. It can monitor all scheduled tasks and infer from that information.

Drivers need similar access but for different reasons, they need access to os functionality a user would absolutely never be granted. This is because they interface directly with hardware and means when drivers crash, they generally don't do it gracefully. Hence the BSOD loop and the need for booting windows without drivers (i.e. safe mode) and the deletion of the misconfiguration file.