is there a way to download a driver without reboot?

Hi

is there a way to download , unload from the memory a drvier like *.sys without reboot the system ?

is there a tool that can do it ?


thanks
cheers

 

Not sure about a tool, there definitely is a way since Sandboxie upgrades do exactly this, no reboot needed.

 

thanks

sadly i 'm looking for a way to un-load a driver , but did not find anything on the net

 

I am afraid there is no universal tool for this, since the driver code has to support the unloading and free allocated resources on unload.

 

@ mantra

Don't know whether any of these "might" throw some light on the subject for you ? But i was curious enough myself to go looking, here's what i discovered.

Mark Russinovich on the Sony rootkit debarcle back in 2005, made these comments, i found Originally Posted by molotov

If any of it works, and/or you find a solution that does, let us know