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App hack? (This is really weird)
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26/04/2008 13:05:50
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01313276
Message ID:
01313279
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11
This sounds like a virus attack!

>I got this message from a user:
>The VFP EXE won’t open for me.
>Is there a problem with the system/program?
>What can I do to fix it?
>I took a look at the computer she was using, which is a Win2003 Server dedicated terminal server machine used by several users via Remote Desktop Connection (and this is how she was using it). So I tried to run the VFP EXE as usual. Would not run. Reported "invalid vfp8r.dll" . Here's what's odd: The _valid_ vfp8r.dll was still where it was supposed to be in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP". However, within the VFP EXE's home folder was a corrupt DLL file also named vfp8r.dll, about half the size of the actual DLL. Its creation date was about 3 days ago. Since the windows loader always first looks in startup dir of an EXE to find support DLL's, it errored out on startup. I have _no_idea_ how that DLL got there. I renamed it to vfp8rbad.dll and the EXE then found its correct DLL in the Microsoft Shared area and now runs fine again.
>
>Has anybody else had this kind of thing happen? It seems at first glance that somebody intentionally tried to hack the app.
>
>Thanks very much.
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