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> This is why fonts are considered system components - they are code, not data, executing on a VM.

Like Javascript in a web page?



A browser's Javascript VM typically doesn't run in ring 0, unless you've got it badly wrong.


> A browser's Javascript VM typically doesn't run in ring 0, unless you've got it badly wrong.

MSIE is an integral part of Windows. Microsoft has always said so.


Not every part of Windows runs in ring 0.




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