I'm not anti-Microsoft, but...

This cracked me up. Absolutely genuine error message I just got a few minutes ago after changing a graphics card.

Oh... I have the impulse to press the "Close Message" button on the image.... M$ is indeed evil ;)

And every ont thougt IBM was the worst enemy.

I dont know but is this microsoft fault or was it virus on that driver manufacturer ?

I love the registation procedure you gona have to do now :)

I dont see whats wrong with that

Er.... what?

Er, what? (No. 2)

Doesnt this message mean you have windows set to 'anal security mode' and that M$ doesnt recognise your programs publisher from its list of friends or it simply doesnt like your programs face?
(it may think something sinister has happened as you changed your card, hence the system info was changed)

Just turn off the DEP (or whatever its called) somewhere in one of the million microsoft 'are you sure' tickboxes. If you are confident you know how to use a computer (and the fact that ruinning stuff *may* unleash viruses, you dont need it anyway.


*edit* ok just noticed its windows explorer, that is a bit weird. Probably windows got its knickers in a knot (as usual) But

I got one of those the other day, except it was RunDLL that was failing. Was because of some ancient Copy Protection scheme (SafeDisc?).

I've just got my new computer which came with IE already installed and I haven't installed firefox yet - and I couldn't understand why I had problems downloading stuff until I saw that tiny notice under the address bar - "to protect your security IE has prevented you from downloading this program" - er thanks Bill!! :)

What's wrong with that? Just click on the bar and you'll get the option of downloading it.

Indiscriminately blocking everything is not security. Indiscriminately blocking everything is what you do when your security fails.

Microsoft is shifting the responsibility for security onto the user, which is a bad idea, as most users aren't that security conscious (75% of them will give you their password in exchange for a pen/chocolate/nothing at all)

Ladies and gentlemen, quote of the month:
Hits the nail on the head there if u ask me.

see Patriot Act

HAHAAHAHAHAHAH...Ilove this..

I might be mistaken, but I thought that this type of error occurs if memory management gets confused, and a buffer over-run was about to happen.

In Win95/98, you'd get a blue screen of death. In 2000/XP/Vista, you get the nifty "I stopped it from happening" window as shown above.

I've never seen this popup in the four years I've owned my XP machine. I think I'm missing out!

Is it because I've never turned any anti-virus on? Cause you
guys should know that I'm proof that anti-virus isn't as
important as people say. Just a good firewall's all you need.

Some versions of DivX can cause a DEP in Explorer.

Only if you still did not disable security bit execution in your bios due to beeing pissed by crashing apps and phantom crashes :)

I guess this just proves that Windows doesn't know its arse from its elbow.

I agree it's a little odd that Windows chose itself as the loser when deciding which application to close.

Been there, done that. MS programs crashing (DEP just meaning a program tried to access memory in an unowned area, ie 0) is not uncommon. At least not for me and Vista.

Truly hilarious when Windows has to shut down its own main app because it's a threat!