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This is standard practice for hardware monitoring tools, including HWMonitor, HWiNFO, and Speccy, each of which uses similar named drivers (e.g., hwinfo64a.sys ). cpuz143-x64.sys
While rare for the average user, this is why some antivirus programs might flag an outdated version of the driver. This paper is for educational and defensive research only