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From: "Nimrod A. Abing" <n_abing AT ns DOT roxas-online DOT net DOT ph>
Subject: Re: Fixed core dumper in dpmiexcp.c
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At 09:29 PM 04/21/2001 +0300, you wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:22:26 +0200 (MET DST)
>> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
>> 
>> > Hello. Attached is the patched dpmiexcp.c. This includes the fix to a bug
>> > in the core dumper code as well as changes to make it compile without
>> > warnings given DJLSR's compiler options. All thanks to Hans Bernard for
>> > finding this bug. 
>> 
>> Hm... you sure I really found it?  I ask because I see hardly any real
>> changes between your new version and the one with my own changes, as
>> reported here, which I used in my tests at home. And that one *did* crash
>> with InnoculateIT PE 5.2.9.0 active.  To be more precise: it crashed until
>> I disabled the "Heuristic" option in the option dialog for online
>> scanning.
>
>Do you have an idea what does that option cause InnoculateIT to do?

It turns on a very aggressive virus scanning method. Heck, I've had
instances where it detected a ``virus'' in a DJGPP program I compiled and
then compressed using UPX! I wrote that program, and it *was* not a virus,
nor did it use any ``to-the-baremetal'' shenanigans -- just some plain and
simple C.

nimrod_a_abing
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