This script utilizes the RtlDecompressBufferEx function from the same library to decompress the Prefetch files. It takes two arguments: the input Prefetch file and the output file. The script reads ...

Windows tips site IntelliAdmin suggests some ways to speed up Windows startup. Alongside the usual defrag and spyware-cleaning suspects, there's an interesting section on disabling Windows' prefetch ...

Prefetch files, found in the Windows operating system's "Prefetch" folder, contain metadata about the execution of programs on a system. These files are used by Windows to optimize the loading of ...

This new technical paper titled “AMD Prefetch Attacks through Power and Time” is from researchers at Graz University of Technology and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Note, this is a ...

The disk I/O calls that the prefetch thread makes are serviced by the prefetch library, which maintains a prefetch queue that stores the addresses of the file blocks to be prefetched. Each prefetch ...

In this subsection we describe the basic operations in the prefetch thread and its interaction with the computation thread and the prefetch library. Figure 2: Computation thread (left) and prefetch ...

Abstract: Automated malware classification assigns unknown malware to known families. Most research in malware classification assumes that the defender has access to the malware for analysis.