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This tag covers discussions about whether viruses and malware can inject malicious code into legitimate Windows processes. Topics include process hollowing, DLL injection, and the ability of threats to hide within trusted system processes like svchost, explorer, and services. Users share concerns about self-sufficient malware that can perform keylogging, web redirection, or denial of service while masquerading as legitimate processes. The tag is relevant for Windows 7 and later versions, focusing on security, threat detection, and understanding how malware exploits trusted system components.
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    Windows 7 Can virus's inject into legitimate process's ? (One for all you tech wizards out there)

    (This pertains to windows 7) As title really, is it possible for a threat loaded from something like a web page or something else, to inject malicious dll's into existing legitimate windows processes ? And when i say existing processes i mean the processes and type of stuff that most people...
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