Introduction As we’ve seen many times before, malware authors are always trying to get at important system folders on victim systems. Some reasons for this are: To locate and attack actual operating system files To impersonate or spoof system files or create files with similar names in an attempt to circumvent detection. For example –…

The linked-list is perhaps the most widely known and often-taught data structures to newbie coders. However, it, like many other newbie lessons in software, is often taught completely out of context… ie: struct LL_node{ int some_data; struct LL_node *next_node; }; or of course in a doubly-linked list, we have a previous_node pointer as well. But…