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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject:  Re: UNZIP: Why don't .exe/.dll files get eXecute privs?
Date:  Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:17:04 -0700
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Charles Wilson wrote:
> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>   
>> Why would DLLs need execute?
>>     
>
> because otherwise windows will refuse to load them, and the application
> you just launched which needs that DLL will fail with an ugly message
> about "Failed to initialize: 0xc0000005".
>   
Really? I did not know that!
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