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Re: Avast Antivirus

From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:33:22 -0500

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:42:22 +0100, Floste said:

This only applies if the user is running an x64 operating system. (The
os type matters, not the application type) I guess that they do
additional security checks in kernelmode on x86 os, but not on x64 os.


Somebody did an 'int' compare that should have been a 'long'?  My first guess...

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