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Re: UNZIP: Why don't .exe/.dll files get eXecute privs?


Charles Wilson wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:

Why would DLLs need execute?

because otherwise windows will refuse to load them, and the application
you just launched which needs that DLL will fail with an ugly message
about "Failed to initialize: 0xc0000005".
Really? I did not know that!
--
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
All generalizations are false


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