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January 06, 2009  
Subject: WinFS Stores and VirusScan Ent conflict
Group: microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.winfs
Date: 12/19/2005 3:44:02 PM
From: =?Utf-8?B?c3RlcGhjcmF3?= [Email Address Protection]

I am a tester at McAfee and installed WinFS Beta 1 onto a WinXPSP2 machine
with all the latest updates, including .NET Framework 2.0.
After installing the latest version of VirusScan Enterprise, then opening
Windows Explorer and double-clicking on the WinFS Stores folder VSE's Buffer
Overflow protection catches the following file with a heap buffer overflow:

dllhost.exe.ADVAPI32:RegOpenKeyExW

When I close the alert window the Windows Explorer window has crashed and
can only be closed via the Task Manager.
With mcshield.exe, our background scanner, disabled the problem does not
occur. As well, if I add dllhost.exe to the list of exceptions in the VSE
Buffer Overflow Properties, the problem does not occur, so it is clearly an
issue between the two.
I noticed that dllhost.exe is loaded when I double-click on the WinFS Stores
folder. I have attempted to attach Windbg to explorer.exe, dllhost.exe and
mcshield.exe, separately, to try and grab some debug spew for this issue but
am coming up empty.
Any ideas would be helpful.

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