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Re: [Patch]: Win95


> Can you believe that the address appears 5 times on the stack on Win95,
> twice on ME, once on NT4.0?
>
> Now that the method is stable (after 1.5.10 is released), couldn't we
store
> the offsets in wincap, keeping the adaptive method as a backup in the
> unknown case? Or are there many variations?

I can tell you from the perspective of writing shellcode and rootkits on
windows that assuming offsets will be the same is not a good idea if you are
going for something that is to be widely deployed. Not only can they vary
between service packs/patches, but also between language editions of the OS.


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