Category Archives: Reverse Engineering

Recently I have had a small but curious research project with the requirement to decrypt ProtectedHomepages binary value stored under [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge\Protected – It is a violation of Windows Policy to modify. See aka.ms/browserpolicy]. While googling around the problem I have seen a related question on StackOverflow, so I decided that it may have sense to share the… Read More »

This is a short reverse engineering review of one useful remote administration utility originally authored by Mark Russinovich (you can download it from Microsoft web-site here). Original version of this review was published on this site in 2004, but since the utility is still very popular and users are interested about its internal design I decided to slightly… Read More »

Original version of this article was published on this site over 14 years ago and was named “Firewall for Windows” (firewalls were popular at that time, however the same kind of drivers can be used for the wide variety of networking applications). Lots of time has passed so far and described old Windows operating systems are mostly out… Read More »