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6One Kernelto Rule Them AllSaturday, March 8, 2008Dear <strong>Diary</strong>,After spending time auditing open source kernels and finding someinteresting bugs, I wondered whether I could find a bug in a MicrosoftWindows driver. There are lots of third-party drivers available forWindows, so choosing just a few to explore wasn’t easy. I finally chosesome antivirus products, since they’re usually promising targets forbug hunting. 1 I visited VirusTotal 2 and chose the first antivirus productthat I recognized on its list: avast! from ALWIL Software. 3 Thatturned out to be a serendipitous decision.← On June 1,2010, ALWILSoftware wasrenamed AVASTSoftware.

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