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Two anti-malware products can conflict through mutual function detours

devblogs.microsoft.com by Raymond Chen Editor score 7/10

One product detoured a function used by another, whose own detour then triggered quarantine behavior and confusion between the processes. It illustrates how independently installed system-level software can interfere through shared hooks.

What

- Two anti-malware programs conflicted after each detoured system functions used by the other.

How

- One product treated the other’s process as suspicious and tried to quarantine it, while its own detoured function was being used by the first.

Why it matters

- Unsupported function detours can make calls behave unexpectedly and create hard-to-diagnose conflicts between system software.

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