"connieharper" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> For the love of God! So, Vista gets to make a "silent" decision about
> what version of my file it decides to open and is allowed to ignore me
> when I rename or move files to another location all because of it's
> desire to enhance security? I feel sick! What about enhancing security
> by sending computer hackers and those who create viruses to prison
> instead.? I am mad and I am not going to take it anymore!
You had better figure out what is going on.
<http://www.securitypronews.com/news/securitynews/spn-45-20060601ASLRJoinsVistasBagOfTricks.html>
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc162458.aspx>
Address Space Load Randomization
Despite measures like Data Execution Prevention and enhanced compiler
error checking, malware authors continue to find buffer overflow
vulnerabilities that allow them to infect network-facing processes like
Internet Explorer®, Windows services, and third-party applications to
gain a foothold on a system. Once they have managed to infect a process,
however, they must use Windows APIs to accomplish their ultimate goal of
reading user data or establishing a permanent presence by modifying user
or system configuration settings.
Connecting an application with API entry points exported by DLLs is
something usually handled by the operating system loader, but these
types of malware infection don't get the benefit of the loader's
services. This hasn't posed a problem for malware on previous versions
of Windows because for any given Windows release, system executable
images and DLLs always load at the same location, allowing malware to
assume that APIs reside at fixed addresses.
The Windows Vista Address Space Load Randomization (ASLR) feature makes
it impossible for malware to know where APIs are located by loading
system DLLs and executables at a different location every time the
system boots. Early in the boot process, the Memory Manager picks a
random DLL image-load bias from one of 256 64KB-aligned addresses in the
16MB region at the top of the user-mode address space. As DLLs that have
the new dynamic-relocation flag in their image header load into a
process, the Memory Manager packs them into memory starting at the
image-load bias address and working its way down.
>
> I have 300 customers many of which are moving to Vista. I think I am
> going to redesign my app to run on the web. What a sad state our
> technology is in....
You didn't do your home work, and you didn't do any testing it seems on the
Vista platform to ensure that yiur solution worked.
http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3695651
>
> Thank you for explaining the problem though. At least I know what's
> going on now. It doesn't make me any happier though. I thought I was
> losing my mind. So basically, I need to throw out everything I know
> about computers and start all over again. Nice. Thanks Microsoft.
I wouldn't say toss out everything. But you do need to re-tool, and you
should start looking at things with a different mindset, as a software
developer.
>
> P.S. How do I disable Vista's "virtualization process" or remove this
> virtual store directory? I don't want vista to "silently redirect my
> application" to anywhere.
You can't possibly think that you will be the only software solutions
developer developing solutions to run on the Vista platform do you? What
about other solutions running on the platform, used by your clients?
As a software developer, you need to understand what is happening to program
viable solutions for Vista.
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691.aspx>
<http://news.softpedia.com/news/Admin-Approval-Mode-in-Windows-Vista-45312.shtml>
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc138019.aspx>
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc160882.aspx>
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa382503.aspx>
You might be real interested in these links too, as a software developer.
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa382503.aspx>
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa382530(VS.85).aspx>
<http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/vista/vista_administrator_activate.htm#Summary_of_Vista_ Administrator_-_Super_User_(Hidden_Account)>
<http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/enable-the-hidden-administrator-account-on-windows-vista/>
I am not MS. :-P
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