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Deviare-InProc

Deviare In Process Instrumentation Engine

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11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
343GitHub stars
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Deviare In Process Instrumentation Engine

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-04-01 17:04:16 UTC to 2024-11-09 19:24:54 UTC.

012342014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Great! We have been working on Windows Process (and COM) injection since 2003 [1][2][3]. I need to talk with the current development team about reviewing it with the EDR-Preloading technique. We have a driver also that suspends a new process before hooking it, we also hook existing processes. Business-wise our work on this went down once Microsoft Detours was made FOSS even when our products has other capabilities. A good old thread is here [4]. [1] https://github.com/nektra/Deviare2 [2] https://github.com/nektra/Deviare-InProc [3] https://github.com/nektra/RemoteBridge [4] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22crn0/gpl_alt...
In Early Cascade Injection: From Windows process creation to stealthy injection
Shameless plug: if you are looking for something similar to DTrace but for Windows that can be also used in Python or any other COM capable programming language... you can take a look at our Deviare Hooking Engine: https://github.com/nektra/Deviare2 Additionally, we have other open source instrumentation engines like https://github.com/nektra/Deviare-InProc (better and more secure than Detours, check [1]), RemoteBridge: https://github.com/nektra/RemoteBridge. SpyStudio will also be open sourced very soon: http://www.nektra.com/products/spystudio-api-monitor/ [1] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Yavo-Cap... and https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Yavo-Cap...
In DTrace and Python
I am never tired of this shameless plug: our state of the art open source instrumentation engines for Microsoft Windows where you can hook applications without even knowing about the complexities of hooking. The most programmer friendly is https://github.com/nektra/Deviare2 while the Microsoft Detours competitor is: https://github.com/nektra/Deviare-InProc It has an embedded disassembler to smartly hook functions even if they have a jmp in the prologue.
In Google XRay: A Function Call Tracing System [pdf]
Shameless plug but my company is almost wholly oriented to binary intrumentation! In our Deviare Hooking Engine/Deviare In Process [gihub-1] and RemoteBridge [github-2], we have a disassembler in place to hook Win32/COM/C++ vtables, so the hooking process is smarter if there are changes in the prologue. You can obviously take a look at the source code and learn a lot from it since it is state of art and perfectly competing with Microsoft Detours [3]. For an old comparison with Microsoft Detours you can check [4]. For anyone else looking for an extremely easy to use and higher level API, Deviare Hooking Engine makes extremely easy to hook and handle functions parameters and return value. Simple like this: [snippet] notepadPID = LaunchNotepadAndGetPid(); //in first place, hook DllGetClassObject of the target dll/ocx
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hookDllGetClassObj = spyMgr.CreateHook("shell32.dll!DllGetClassObject", (int)eNktHookFlags.flgOnlyPostCall); hookDllGetClassObj.Attach(notepadPID, true); hookDllGetClassObj.Hook(true); hookDllGetClassObj.OnFunctionCalled += OnDllGetClassObjectCalled; [/snippet] Docs are available here: http://www.nektra.com/products/deviare-api-hook-windows/doc-... [github-1] https://github.com/nektra/Deviare2 [github-1 bis] https://github.com/nektra/Deviare-InProc [github-2] https://github.com/nektra/RemoteBridge [3] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/detours/ [4] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22crn0/gpl_alt...
In Hotpatching a C Function on x86
My two cents: if you need to instrument native Windows applications, including Win32 and COM, my company develops three mature GPLv3 libs: 1/ Deviare In-Proc (like Microsoft Detours): https://github.com/nektra/Deviare-InProc 2/ Deviare Hooking Engine (even novices can instrument apps): https://github.com/nektra/Deviare2 3/ RemoteBridge (access internal COM and Java apps) https://github.com/nektra/RemoteBridge All these libs include examples and there are additional use cases in our blog http://blog.nektra.com
In Logging vs. instrumentation
If you are interested in rapid sandboxing for Windows (yes, with support for W10 and x86/x64), you can take a look at my company's open source libs: - https://github.com/nektra/deviare2 - https://github.com/nektra/Deviare-InProc/ The first one is extremely easy to use and does a lot of work behind the scenes. For example, Symantec use it for running legacy applications such as Internet Explorer 6 in Windows 7. They are not focused on the kind of security isolation of Vx32 but they work in low privilege Windows processes.
In Vx32: Lightweight User-Level Sandboxing on the X86 (2008)

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