How could I communicate with a driver from a usermode application over a network? I can't have the driver communicate with a local usermode application which then communicates with the remote application because that wouldn't work for what I'm doing. I was thinking of using named pipes but I'm not sure if that would work over a network. ...
I'd love to dive into kernel hooking - but my problem is that I don't like C/C++. But I've over 10 years experience in VB6 programming and would call my self as an expert in this language. So my question is if it was possible to use a tiny C kernel mode driver - which could be controlled by VB from the user mode via the DeviceIoControl A...
I am aware of the difference between a process running in user mode and one running in kernel mode (based on access restrictions, access to hardware etc.). But just out of curiosity, what is the difference between a process running in kernel mode and one running as root? ...
Hello, I'd like to call my app from my driver when an interesting event happens in the Windows kernel. I need to be able to pass at least 4 bytes of data back to user mode. How to achieve this? These events might happen quite, but not too, often, so I don't want to build a queue system and use IOCTLs. I was thinking of something like t...
I finished homework for a graduate course in operating systems. I got a great score and I only missed one tiny point of a question. It asked which were privileged instructions and which were not. I answered all correctly except one: Adding one register value to another I answered it was privileged but apparently it's not! How can this b...