Memory Protection Issue

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bigguy
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Memory Protection Issue

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Hello, I've excluded a segment from memory protection and when I edit (not in runtime, statically) any variables in my segment it gives an error??? The segment has the write privilege...
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Re: Memory Protection Issue

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VMProtect doesn't protect WRITABLE segments.
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Re: Memory Protection Issue

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I understand but your check only works in runtime not statically. If I we're to open up my binary (with memory protection) and modify a writable memory region statically (patching) then the checksum will get triggered...
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Re: Memory Protection Issue

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VMProtect also checks a file on HDD, so a protected application shows "File corrupted ...".
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