Obscurity adds security, at least when it comes to intrusion prevention. This demo Win32 API blocker obfuscates Win32 calls as a defense against unauthorized access.
Nearly half of all business PCs still run Windows 2000, the aging Microsoft operating system that's moving into extended support at the end of June, an asset-monitoring software vendor says.
By creating an I/O firebreak with alternative custom API calls, your Windows boxes become impervious to attackers trying to exploit the standard Win32 APIs.
If you need to do COM with legacy objects that are not thread safe and you want to access COM objects from multiple threads, you can't use the ThreadPool
