[Windows] harden system DLL loading #73
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Technically loading system DLLs from relative paths with NewLazyDLL is vulnerable to DLL preloading attacks. See the warning on NewLazyDLL here [0].
[0] https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sys/windows?GOOS=windows#NewLazyDLL
We had this filed as a bug against us in Gio, and it prompted me to look through my dependency trees to try to help other people catch it.