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Old Jul 20, 2024 | 12:38 am
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Originally Posted by crazy8534
In case anyone else is interested apparently it was a NULL pointer to 0x9c (should have done “checking full null”). Because it is a privileged system driver then Windows tried to protect itself by going to blue screen of death.

The conspiracy theory is that it was a deliberate plot to force mission critical code from C++ to Rust….
The difference between an rogue enterprise level antivirus system and a successful rootkit virus is very small and the damage done in this case is quite similar...
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