Microsoft Research Detours Package Alternatives

Microsoft Research Detours Package reviews and mentions

• AMD's Anti-Lag feature is getting gamers banned from Counter-Strike 2
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Oct 2023

  Nit: AFAIU there is no literal modification of machine code going on—instead the import address table (IAT, the Windows counterpart of Linux’s GOT) is patched (the Windows tradition calls this “detoured”, from the quite popular Microsoft hack[1] that does it).

  [1] https://github.com/microsoft/Detours

• Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2023

  You essentially replace a function with your own. The project is at https://github.com/microsoft/Detours.

  I’ve created a PowerShell module that wraps this library to make it easier to hook functions on the fly for testing https://github.com/jborean93/PSDetour. For example I used it to capture TLS session data for decryption https://gist.github.com/jborean93/6c1f1b3130f2675f1618da5663... as well as create an strace like functionality for various Win32 APIs (still expanding as I find more use cases) https://github.com/jborean93/PSDetour-Hooks

• #rescuerift
  3 projects | /r/Rift | 27 May 2023

  But the client is much different now, and most of that won't work anymore. The client is heavily obfuscated and you can't use a packet sniffer, the communications are encrypted, you CAN however use things like Microsoft Detours to peek at communications

• Hooking 🪝
  1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 11 May 2023

  If you mean is there an API to perform hooking, then I think the answer is no. There are libraries for doing this, including the official MS one: https://github.com/microsoft/Detours

• It looks like League of Legends' source code has leaked and is up for sale online
  1 project | /r/pcgaming | 25 Jan 2023

  That's how things like steam or Nvidia overlays work, or fraps or OBS hook the output buffer; you can use official packages published by Microsoft for that, such as Detours.

• Having too many (1,000+) Microsoft Edge tabs open can break File Explorer in Windows 10
  1 project | /r/edge | 21 Jan 2023

  Inject a DLL into the process. The DLL hooks two API functions, RoGetActivationFactory() and RoActivateInstance(), using Detours library. When a WinRT class ID is passed in, compare it with WindowsUdk.UI.Shell.WindowTabManager, and if equal, return an error code.

• Is it possible to edit the XAML of the Win11 Taskbar?
  2 projects | /r/Windows11 | 18 Jan 2023

  3. Manual hooking (Not recommended): It's possible to use some hooking library like Microsoft Detours to hook the functions responsible for creating the UI layout. I highly unrecommend this method as it's the most method prone to be broken by any change Microsoft does.

• Is there a tool that you can attach to a game EXE file directly and it ll show you incoming and outgoing traffic for only that file?
  1 project | /r/REGames | 10 Nov 2022

  Reference: https://github.com/microsoft/Detours

• Debugging C with Cosmopolitan Libc
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2022
• Using Landlock to Sandbox GNU Make
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Aug 2022

  > With regards to chroot, I stand corrected. I knew it was a tree of symlinks, but I thought it was also more than that because symlinks alone don't seem like a sandbox. Honestly, Cosmopolitan's system appears to be more of a sandbox than that.

  To be totally clear: the tree of symlinks thing is a fallback, used only when lacking platform support or when sandboxing is explicitly turned off [0]. On Linux, the normal sandboxing strategy is to use namespaces, like most container runtimes. On Mac it apparently uses sandbox-exec (some opaque Apple tool), as was mentioned above. Chroot, being both non-POSIX, requiring root access on many systems, and not providing the necessary facilities is not really a great fit -- which I assume is why it's not used.

  There was experimental Windows sandbox support at one point [1] based on how MS does it for BuildXL (their own build tool for giant monorepos) [2]. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be maintained, and under the hood it's kinda ugly -- it actively rewrites code in-memory to intercept calls to the Win32 APIs [3], which was apparently the cleanest/best way MS could come up with. However, from Bazel's POV it works in a roughly similar way -- you spawn subprocesses under a supervisor, which is in charge of spinning up whatever the target process is with restrictions on time/memory usage/file access.

  On the "sandbox in the interpreter" thing: what kind of checks are you envisioning? It seems like putting checks at that level would end up leaving a lot out -- the goal of any build system is to eventually spawn an arbitrary process (Python, gcc, javac, some shell script, etc.) and so even with extensive checks in starlark you'd end up with accidental sandbox breaks all over the place. For pure starlark rules you could e.g. check that there are no inputs from /usr, but even then if gcc does it implicitly, you're SOL. Or am I thinking of the wrong kind of checks?

  [0] https://bazel.build/docs/sandboxing#sandboxing-strategies

  [1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/5136#issuecomment...

  [2] https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL/blob/master/Documentati...

  [3] https://github.com/microsoft/Detours/wiki

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