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Re: BLODA detection code in latest snapshot


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

There's no BLODA on this machine.

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