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Dave Probert is an architect on the Windows Kernel team. This is the first time we've had an architect from the kernel team on Channel 9.You'll hear from Dave over the next week or so (we split the interview up into four parts).This is also the first of a series of deep looks inside Windows.

Here's the second part of the interview with Neal Christiansen. He talks about the internals of Windows and how File System Filters work.Here's the first part of the interview in case you missed that.

File System Filters are kernel-mode non-device drivers that monitor inbound and outbound FileSystem IO.A prime example of an FSM is anti-virus software (the primary function of an AV app is to monitor IO stream content looking for virus patterns, after…