Is it legal to patch the windows binary self?

I found lot of people research on Windows PatchGuard. and they can static change windows binary to disable windows PatchGuard. I just curious about is it legal or not to change windows binary? Does anyone can confirm about it? Is any official document mentions about this?

The phrase “change windows binary” doesn’t mean anything. What are they changing? Kernel drivers are protected by checksums.

The people trying to override PatchGuard are not interested in whether such a thing is legal, but it is certainly unethical. No ethical programmer would do such a thing. We’re too busy trying to get work done.

@blknit WTF is it with you posting in the wrong forum? Is this really an admin question?

Please pay attention to where you’re posting.

Moving this topic…

Peter

@Peter_Viscarola_(OSR) Sorry. I will pay attention next time. Please delete the post. Thanks.

it should be obvious that it is not okay to arbitrarily modify parts of the OS either in memory or on disk. Technologies like patch guard exist to help prevent this kind of modification by malware