Spywareblaster crash in Vista Home Premium

[rmarinie]

When I first installed Spywareblaster on my new Vista Home Premium (32-bit) machine, it worked fine. Now, it crashes everytime I try to start it. Vista reports the following crash details:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: spywareblaster.exe
Application Version: 3.5.0.1
Application Timestamp: 43b835e1
Fault Module Name: StackHash_ec66
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000096
Exception Offset: 016b32fc
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: ec66
Additional Information 2: 0f14b907d00ca12cd1296f0dd8704d01
Additional Information 3: 799c
Additional Information 4: 48a24e659907b55f376f6bf0a180ae1c

[javacool]

Hi,

What have you installed / changed in the interim? And have you changed any key Vista settings?

Best regards and thanks,

-Javacool

[rmarinie]

I was just doing basic setup, so I have the following installed (although I can't say for sure which of these was installed before or after):

Firefox 2
Thunderbird 1.5
Visual Studio 2005 SP1
distributed.net
netDIMES
Office 2007
Norton Internet Security
Python 2.4
Python 2.5
Tcl 8.4.11
Winmerge
TortoiseSVN
Java 1.6 JDK
Various updated drivers from Dell (video, network)
Various updates from WindowsUpdate

Most of these things I had installed on my old XP box without problems. The only new stuff is Office 2007 (had 2003 before), Norton Internet Security, VS 2005 SP1 (didn't have SP1 before), and Java 1.6 JDK (had 1.5 before).

I don't think I've changed any meaningful settings in Vista -- just the wallpaper and stuff like that.

[javacool]

Hi,

Could you please try uninstalling and reinstalling SpywareBlaster from a fresh download?

(Even if the program itself crashes, you should still be able to uninstall by using the Add/Remove programs wizard).

Please let me know if the error message goes away or changes.

Best regards,

-Javacool

[rmarinie]

I found the problem. It turns out I did change one critical system setting (which I then forgot about): I turned on Data Execution Prevention for all programs. Turning this off allows Spywareblaster to work.