Anti-Debug NtSetInformationThread

Most people who work with debuggers don’t really care about anti-debug tricks, because there are plenty of anti-anti-debug plugins e.g. StrongOD, Phantom, Stealth64, IdaStealth, HideDebugger, etc. and they do a great job against standard anti-debug tricks found in “anti-debug reference” articles (e.g. here). But most anti-debug articles simply copy & paste known source code without adjusting it. Most tricks work fine with Windows XP, but don’t work with Windows Vista/7/8, e.g. one of the worst anti-debug trick ever is kernel32!OutputDebugString. And some other known tricks can be updated and improved to work even better with Vista/7/8.

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