Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Security Handbook

Summary

If you got one thing out of this chapter, it should be that drivers are very powerful, relatively stealthy, and need to be watched carefully.

Now, hopefully you got a little bit more than that out of the preceding pages, such as the different kinds of drivers in Windows 2000 and a better handle on what they are and how they work. Drivers are so often seen as this huge gray cloud; I hope I've been able to take some of the confusion out of the picture.

That wraps up the first section of the book, which covered the nuts and bolts of Windows 2000. In the next section, you'll look at the foundations of computer security in general. Much of the information in the next chapters isn't Windows 2000—specific, but it is pertinent information all ...