[Fwd: Re: Error when clicking on prefrences]

Phil Hannent phil at hannent.co.uk
Tue Jun 24 04:46:17 EDT 2008


Did you see this?

Turning off DEP for Pidgin might solve the issue.  If it does can you 
report any success?

Regards
Phil

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Error when clicking on prefrences
Date: 	Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:44:37 +0100
From: 	Phil Hannent <phil at hannent.co.uk>
CC: 	devel at pidgin.im
References: 
<40c923580806180905n448e2641u562d7e8aa546f00e at mail.gmail.com> 
<485B8E3F.2090307 at hannent.co.uk>



Phil Hannent wrote:
> Daniel Simmons wrote:
>> <EXE NAME="pidgin.exe" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_PRIVACY">
> This is a fault in some software you have running on your PC.  It 
> might be an antivirus product?  Looking up GRABMI_FILTER_PRIVACY on 
> the internet shows a number of hits for the same problem with 
> different software.
>
> Do you have McAfee installed?
Further reading [1] suggests that this is an issue with the windows Data 
Execution Prevention (DEP) system that was introduced in service pack 
2.  The application can be excluded is needs be, by default my windows 
XP has DEP only for windows programs.

Regards
Phil Hannent

[1] http://forum.skype.com/lofiversion/index.php/t17763.html



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