Comment by Veliladon
3 months ago
> The mod injects only in the process Winlogon.exe, and exits once the handle of the memory area is closed. It does not hook any functions.
Yep. Sure. Going to let a Russian utility fuck with winlogon.exe. Excellent idea.
Yeah, it would be so much better if it was American-made, because as everyone knows there are no corrupt people in the US and every person of Russian descent is a spy for their motherland's government (:
Yes, it would be better if it was American made, because the US government has lesser capability to compell otherwise independent developers to do their bidding.
> US government has lesser capability to compell otherwise independent developers to do their bidding.
Are you sure about this? The US, like most countries with extensive intelligence capabilities, does not have a good track record of convincing their citizens of doing shady things [1].
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
You missed my point, which is that all governments exist to oppress by design, it's literally what governments are, they are businesses that monopolize violence. Some people, esp. people of the Western world are too arrogant to admit it. Personally, I would honestly rather trust someone who is aware of that fact over someone who isn't.
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That was my first concern too, but it does look like you can build the binary from source:
https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk
Why such a simple UI utility app needed a VSCodium/Electron UI? The author seems to be well versed in Win32 API, so why not just learn the GUI part as well? It's not that hard.
The reason the Windhawk UI is based on VSCodium is mainly for the mod editing functionality. VSCodium with clangd are used for C++ intellisense out of the box.
You might say that many users don't care about mod development and don't need it. I agree, and I have it on my list to create a lite Windhawk version which doesn't depend on VSCodium.
Note that VSCodium is only used for the UI. When Windhawk is running in the background, its memory consumption is a couple of MB.
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I 100% agree with this sentiment
Doesn't mean it's safe.
Yeah, I would probably delete this updater if I were to try this: https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk/blob/main/src/wind...
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I didn't say it was. But having the source means you (and others) can vet the code if that's a concern.
And the author is a security/malware researcher. Yeah, you might want to pass.
Both the mod's author and Windhawk's autor live in Israel, if it makes you feel more safe.
just add the r===ain keyboard to input sources and you will be fine.
>fuck with winlogon.exe. Excellent idea.
That's mostly irrelevant because all the thing baddies want to do with your computer, they can do without touching winlogon or even getting admin.
https://xkcd.com/1200/
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