Windows Packet Filter and Gigabit networks

By | April 6, 2016

There is a very popular and important question about Windows Packet Filter: “Can I handle Gigabit traffic in WinpkFilter user-mode application without noticeable performance degradation?”. I was asked rather frequently and usually, my answer starts with “that depends…” followed up by various performance related considerations and ends with a sentence “if you need maximum possible performance then consider… Read More »

Inside PsExec remote administration

By | March 24, 2004

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). The 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… Read More »