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WinRing0: Why Windows is flagging your PC monitoring and fan control apps as a threat
Is it dangerous? What happens next?
For others, the threat was detected in Razer Synapse, SteelSeries Engine, OpenRGB, Libre Hardware Monitor, CapFrameX, MSI Afterburner, OmenMon, FanCtrl, ZenTimings, and Panorama9, among many others. After the CrowdStrike outage that knocked out 8.5 million devices with a buggy update last year, Microsoft has been under pressure to restrict software that has special access to low level hardware, so nothing like that can happen again. Prebuilt gaming PC manufacturer iBuyPower, whose Hyte Nexus monitoring software also uses WinRing0 and got flagged by Windows Defender, tells The Verge it will endeavor to get an updated WinRing0 signed — and give the results back to developers.
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