Blast from the past Windows 2003 Service Pack 1..2 era hotpatching
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/12
For a short while (from Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 till Windows 2003 service pack 2) some updates used Windows Hotpatching.
Some links on the how/why and how to abuse it:
- Windows Hotpatching: A Walkthrough | Johannes Passing’s Blog
- Windows Hotpatching | Johannes Passing’s Blog
- Why do Windows functions all begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction? | The Old New Thing
- How I Built a Working Online Poker Bot, Part 7: Extracting Text from 3rd-Party Applications | Coding the Wheel
All because of this little post:
Hier ein Einblick in die Denkweise von Leuten, die Software auf CD-ROM verteilen und bei denen Release Zyklen in Monaten und nicht Minuten gemessen werd… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
–jeroen
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