Windows API Hooking and DLL Injection

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This article is devoted to an approach for setting up local Windows API hooks. This article will also provide you with a DLL (dynamic link library) injection example: we will demonstrate how you can easily hook the system network adapter enumerator API call to manipulate the returned network adapter info. 

Overview

Hooking covers a range of techniques for altering or augmenting the behavior of an operating system, application, or other software components by intercepting API function calls, messages, or events passed between software components. Code that handles such interception is called a hook.

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