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I've lost hundreds of Gigabits of data to applications from untrusted developers. So now I'm writing an application that will prevent a specified process from doing any kind of IO without permission from the user. You just have to enter the path to the executable and my application will monitor the process.

I have pasted a link in the question titled 'Evidence', please have a look at it.

Hi Dave, I provided a link in my question which shows how many people are having this problem. I know that visual studio doesn't do anything to accounts and folder permissions, but in order to provide a highly integrated experience, it create many new and edits a lot of the existing registry keys. Now during uninstall, it somehow goof's up when removing those keys and restoring the registry. That is how the problem arises.

Hi Karsten, the problem I had was that when I used the Programs And Features thingy to uninstall, it did something which locked the administrator account out of virtually every folder. I finally had to make a clean install of windows. I don't think that I did anything wrong. This actually happened twice, the first time on windows 7 and the second time on windows 8.1. The second time I was able to get rid of it without destroying windows but it took almost 48 hours. Anyway I just bought a new notebook and I am not going to take that risk on it. As for Xamarin, I generally code in Java, C and C++, Occasionally in PHP, Python, Objective C. Java is no problem, I use netbeans for that, but netbeans does not have very good C and C++ compiler integration, but I can live with that. The problem is, that GCC doesn't support the Win32 API fully. A complex problem....

Whoa! If the question was not coherent how did 'OriginalGriff' manage to answer it? And you OBVIOUSLY have no CLUE about the '&' operator! Or about pointers!

I was trying to understand the end of the string by the compiler...

I know it's meaningless... But anyway, thanks.

Have you any idea about what you are saying? The value in 'Data' and '&Data' are the same thing! This is like saying there is no difference between a Fish and a Bird!

&Data will return the address of the Variable 'Data'. Not the address of the first element.

But the variable 'Data' has the value already (i think), so why should i use '&'?

Thanks. Ps. I am sorry for being rude, I did not mean to, but the he just went on and on!

Get off my back man! You don't have a clue about the problem! How the hell do you resolve a unresolved __RTC_* error without linking to the standard CRT (which is exactly my question)?

First of all, I know what a 'symbol' is. Secondly, if you don't understand the question, you can ask me to add a (quite unneeded) explanation. The problem has been purposely induced by me. I want 'AVOID USING THE SHARED LIBRARY'S OR MORE SPECIFICALLY JUST THE CRT'. Do not underestimate everybody. Also, the problem has nothing to do with the darn source code.

I SAID `I was reading on bitwise op's` Here is a link to Google Translate http://transalate.google.com please translate it to a language you understand. What I know is that you read on a thing because either you have forgotten it or you don't know it.

It's a great explanation, but a cherry on top of the cake would be the title of a book that explains all of this and more. You said that a book on assembly programming will be perfect, but I have been reading one and it doesn't have stuff about byte ordering systems, byte alignment, addressing modes, memory addresses, calling conventions, etc., which I think is because they are a part of practical computer science and not of assembly programming.

Another thing that I forgot to ask is that if 'db' allocates bytes, what is the purpose of having 'dw', 'dd', etc.?

:laugh: That's fine, but can you give me the exact name for this topic, (I call it assembly programming).

Can you suggest a good book?

mov eax, [ebx]; assuming that there is a memory address in ebx, the place where I learnt assembly says 'Move the 4 bytes in memory at the address contained in EBX into EAX' what if the data is not 4 bytes, maybe it is 100 bytes, what does it do in that case?

But it will (maybe) have to save the length either in a register or the ram?

But how does the CPU know how long the string is?

I mean to say operand size in there, the darn thing is not letting me edit the answer again.

What I meant to ask is that if I encounter a statement 'mov eax, 0123' how do I figure out the operand size of '0123'(in C++)?

I am not saying that an assembler transforms assembly into C/C++. I did not post my question right, let me edit it. Wait for 5 minutes please.

Assemblers are written in C (at least some of 'em) and they do it... I guess...

It was just an example.... And i did not notice...