Loki Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 So I was sitting infront of my computer getting ready to watch hak5. When I clicked on the episode Real Player openned up, froze, and shut down with a message allong the lines of: Data Execution Prevention Microsoft Data Execution Prevention has prevented you from running this file to help prevent against viruses Or at least something very close. Okay, so my question is: Is there a way to Completely turn off the DEP "feature" because it is really statring to cause problems. Thanks, Loki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yourmysin Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 Have you noticed this opening/running any other applications, or is it just realplayer. Because IMO, Realplayer sucks. All i have had with it is problems. Try another media player, that will probley help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 Moonlit recommends VideoLAN Client. VLC ftw! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 11, 2006 Author Share Posted October 11, 2006 Its not just Real Player, Its whenever I try to run any kind of media file, it won't even let me copy files or re-organise files on my external HDD without giving me trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boristsr Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 right click my computer->properties->adanced->performance-> settings->Data Execution Protection->ensure it's set to "Turn on DEP for essential windows programs and services only" that should mean it won't run on things like real player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 11, 2006 Author Share Posted October 11, 2006 It still doesn't work, I really don't understand whats going on, it just started reciently, so.............any more suggestions? Olay, so I tried the control panel fix and that didn't work, I switched media players and that didn't work, so does anyone have any more suggestions, All help is greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalada Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 Completely turning of DEP is a bit of a security risk. I can't understand why it would pick up on RealPlayer? That suggests that RealPlayer is buffer overflowing (as I believe that is what DEP protects against to some extent). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Execution_Prevention Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Actually its not buffer overflowing its simply executing code in memory that has not been allocated for execuion. Its up to RealPlayer people to fix the problem. irfanview has the same type problem. For more info checkout Security Now a podcast on twit.tv. http://www.twit.tv/sn78 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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