Vista annoyance: one step forward, three steps back [SOLVED]

[leppie]

The external component is writing to unallocated memory. In previous OS's this would go unnoticed. Vista actually protects you against malicious use of this scenario. Turning DEP off wont help in Vista, you will still get an exception (attempting to write to null pointer or something). I suggest you contact the authors of the external DLL and ask them to advise you on getting it to run on Vista or ask them to fix the issues.

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[Priyatam K]

Stop bashing vista for every wrong line of code which someone wrote X| X| PS: Apple rocks!!

[leppie]

You are not the only one with this problem. ANTS Profiler does the same if you feed it an assembly with tail calls (I believe this is cause by an offset that is 16 instead of 12 or vice versa, but it takes just one wrong step for DEP to kick in).

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[Harvey Saayman]

i also came across that right after posting and it worked. Its not going to impress sys-admins at most of our clients but it will do for now. Thanx pete

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[Harvey Saayman]

turned it off and everything works fine now :) had too run cmd as admin and execute the following

bcdedit.exe /set {curren} nx AlwaysOff

and then restart the machine

leppie wrote:

I suggest you contact the authors of the external DLL

Were going too, this is just a quick fix. But the authors are Chinese that no speak engwhish velly goot

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[Dalek Dave]

Harvey Saayman wrote:

But the authors are Chinese that no speak engwhish velly goot

This from a South African! :laugh:

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

DEP existed before Vista as well. But with Vista, the security has been tightened. I usually am not a Vista fanboy, but with this issue of yours, you cannot blame Vista. It actually is trying to protect you from something that is presumably malicious.

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

You're such a heartless bastard. :laugh:

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[Harvey Saayman]

Priyatam K wrote:

Stop bashing vista

when they fix it ill stop bashing

Priyatam K wrote:

every wrong line of code which someone wrote

i wrote the app in question, and I didnt write wrong lines of code! Its a simple as hell 100 line console app that calls methods in a DLL. so go sit in the corner and eat your little Apple!

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[Harvey Saayman]

i agree, but when it tells me im not allowed to put an app in the exception list without even a reason, thats not cool.

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[Dalek Dave]

Harvey Saayman wrote:

I can like to speak English deliciously

Tick VG! :)

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[Harvey Saayman]

haha, you trying to say there's something wrong with my English? I can like to speak English deliciously! :-D

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[Harvey Saayman]

Dalek Dave wrote:

Tick VG!

huh?

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[Dalek Dave]

Tick as is get a tick for a right answer, and VG = Very Good. It is what teachers write on your schoolwork.

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[peterchen]

leppie wrote:

The external component is writing to unallocated memory.

Rather, it is trying to run code in memory not allocated with EXECUTE rights.

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[Priyatam K]

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

but with this issue of yours, you cannot blame Vista. It actually is trying to protect you from something that is presumably malicious.

I'm also trying to tell the same thing :mad:

[Harvey Saayman]

now i get it :-O

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[Priyatam K]

Wrong lines of code might be in dll. Pro**bab(y)**ly you misunderstood me X| No, thanks. I just had my lunch. X| X|

[leppie]

Thanks, I wasnt sure about the exact details :)

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[Daniel Grunwald]

Your program is probably marked as /NXCOMPAT[^] (compatible with DEP, the C# compiler does this by default[^]). You can't blame Vista if your program says "I'm fine with DEP" and then isn't.