IE7 Crashing?

I have noticed in the past few days that IE7 has been crashing a lot on msdn2.microsoft.com. Is anyone else seeing this or did I somehow screw up my system? Vista, latest updates, blah blah…

Please at least Authenticode-sign your drivers

I am a happy user of Parallels Desktop, which, for those that don’t keep up with this sort of thing, is virtual machine software for Mac. It’s a great product overall, although it has a few rough edges.
One of the rougher edges is the fact that their drivers are unsigned. I suspect they’re probably doing […]

Whence came function hooking?

A friend is digging around trying to find out when function prologue hooking was invented, and who did it. Does anyone out there know of any old-time uses of function prologue hooking?
I’m NOT talking about:

Interrupt hooking
system call hooking
window hooks
VxD service hooking
hot patching
any “architected” hook

I’m interested only in programs that disassemble a C (or similar) function […]

Is it just me…

…or are LookupAccountName and LookupAccountSid named backwards?
Annoying.

A documented way to get loaded modules

This is a new one on me. I just saw this mentioned on NTDEV for the first time yesterday. AuxKlibQueryModuleInformation is a documented way to get the loaded modules, replacing some of the functionality of ZwQuerySystemInformation.
In fact, the entire Auxiliary Kernel-Mode Library Routines section is interesting. I had no idea it existed until […]