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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: BLODA detection code in latest snapshot
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On Feb 27 20:02, David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 2/27/2012 6:53 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
> > On 2/27/2012 4:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>   Of course this is not foolproof.  The only filtered system DLLs so
> >>   far are kernel32.dll, ntdll.dll, mswsock.dll, amd ws2_32.dll.  If you
> >>   playing around with this, and if you find that a core system DLL is
> >>   reported (like, say, advapi32.dll), then please notify this list, too.
> > 
> > On one of my Windows XP 32 boxes, it is reporting
> > 
> > Potential BLODA detected!  Thread function called outside of Cygwin DLL:
> >   C:\WINDOWS\system32\advapi32.dll
> > 
> > when I ssh to another host. The machine DOES have potential BLODA,
> > though: Symantec Endpoint Protection. It's never caused me any problems.
> > 
> > You did say above to report to the list if advapi32.dll is reported, and
> > you didn't say not to report it if there is helpful anti-workright
> > software on the machine, so, here's your report. Forgive me if I
> > misunderstood.
> 
> Here's another one, this time on a Win7-64 machine:
> 
> Potential BLODA detected!  Thread function called outside of Cygwin DLL:
>   C:\Windows\syswow64\SHLWAPI.dll
> 
> I get this when running
> 
> % cygstart --hide "$(cygpath -W)/sysnative/msg" $USER test

Yup, confirmed.  This occurs on W7/32 as well.  I add shlwapi to the
list of filtered DLLs for which no such message is printed.


Thanks,
Corinna

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