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0 pointsslededit9y ago0 comments

On my last box I found the AMD drivers were injecting a DLL into almost every process - including the brand new program I was in the process of developing.

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brokenmachine9y ago

Can someone ELI5 what injecting a DLL does, how they did it, and what they might have been using it for?

I know with my old Nvidia drivers, you can add extra icons for window management to every window (move to next monitor, etc). Would this be using DLL injection?

0xcde4c3db9y ago

I've seen Nvidia drivers do that too. I think it's mostly done to let the user override graphics settings that are otherwise hardcoded into the application's API calls.

imtringued9y ago

You can uncheck Plays.tv/Raptr/AMD Gaming Evolved during the installation or uninstall it after the fact. It's seperate from the drivers.

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