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nitwit005 on Sept 10, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

Generally speaking, the waste is only hard disk space. If no one ever loads some old DLL, it just sits there.

johannes1234321 on Sept 10, 2024 [–]

Nobody loads it, but the attacker. Either via a specially crafted program or via some COM service invoked from a Word document or something.

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