[C#]anti-memory reading | is virtualprotect a solution ?

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Hello ! I am trying to increase the difficulty of my program to get runtime readed(not necessarily dumped). I made a huge google search, and i found VirtualProtect(and VirtualProtectEx) methods which can set the memory protection option to PAGE_NOACCESS or other options. Is this the right way to prevent a program/user to read the memory at runtime ?

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I searched in google and i found VirtualProtectEx and virtual protect methods.

Posted 16-Feb-17 21:20pm

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Updated 16-Feb-17 22:26pm

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2017-02-16T22:26:00

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See VirtualProtectEx function (Windows)[^]. This only works for Virtually allocated memory.

Posted 16-Feb-17 22:26pm

Richard MacCutchan