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February 2006 - Posts

Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:09 PM

Security and stability improvements unique to Windows Vista x64

Windows Vista x64 will mandate all kernel modules are digitally signed by Microsoft. This is unique to the x64 (AMD64/Intel EM64T) build of the software, and does not apply to 32-bit (x86) builds or IA64 (Itanium) builds. By doing this, vendors who write

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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:00 PM

Bypass Software Restriction Policies and some Group Policies

Mark Russinovich of sysinternals fame, an author I have a great deal of time for, has published a fascinating blog describing a proof-of-concept application called GPDisable which, when allowed to run, can circumvent parts of group policy - it even works