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Archive for April 10th, 2025

Dutch translations for English software terms (Nederlandse vertalingen voor Engelse software termen)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/10

A while ago I assisted to translate parts of some software from English to Dutch.

Knowing from the last, that there were on-line guidelines for this, I tried to find them back.

That was tough, and I got a feeling many of the past ones vanished.

Here are some links – in the order I browsed them – for a future self in case I want to find them again (in bold, the useful resources):

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Windows Installer is transactional, but combined with NTFS and installer processes is not fully: do more C:\Config.msi vulnerabilities exist? (plus a truckload of information on Windows SIDs)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/10

Over the last years a few C:\Windows.msi vulnerabilities have been discovered (and fixed), of which some are linked below.

The core is that the Windows Installer tries to be transactional, and NTFS is, but the combination with installer processes isn’t.

That leads into vulnerabilities where you can insert malicious Roll Back Scripts (.rbs files) and Roll Back Files (.rbf files), and I wonder if by now more have been discovered.

So this post is a kind of reminder to myself (:

Oh, and I learned much more about whoami on Windows, as there  whoami /groups shows very detailed SID information. From that, I learned more on the internals of SIDs too!

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