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by dfox 2640 days ago
Writing "drivers" that do questionable things for even more questionable reasons seems to be par for the course in the Windows ecosystem. If I understand the whole situation correctly, Fortnite installs WHQL certified kernel driver, whose sole purpose is to cause BSOD when LSASS.EXE maps pages from the Fortnite process...
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Is that an anti-cheat feature?
As if the same OEMs would constrain themselves when targeting other platforms.