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Injecting plus manually by Novastar827 on 04-01-2007 at 05:50 AM
Is it possible to inject plus live directly into the messenger process without using msimg32.dll as a loader? Injecting msimg32.dll directly will not load the menus, nor injecting any of the other dlls. In messenger plus 3, it was trivial, just injecting msgplusloader.dll was sufficient.
why I ask is that plus live has trouble loading within a virtualized thinstall environment, thinstall is an application capable of virtualizing complex applications such as microsoft office 2007, it is capable of virtualizing com components, .net applications, and side by side assemblies without installation, packing them into a single exe which decompresses and operates completely in memory without extracting anything to the disk, with a virtual registry, and filesystem, which operates completely in user mode.
while WLM runs perfectly while thinstalled, when the installation of plus live is captured along with it, plus does not seem to load at all, I've verified it is loading the msimg32.dll provided with plus in the messenger directory, but the menus do not load, I was thinking it'd be easier by side stepping the loader dll, and simply injecting plus directly into the process, this worked perfectly with the old plus, I'm guessing there's some kind of problem with the loader trying to hook itself inside the virtual environment, I thought it might be a problem with detours itself, but several basic tests of detours hooking notepad works perfectly within a thinstall environment, so that's not it, it'd be nice to know a little more on how plus hooks itself into the process, and what might be a good way of approaching this
RE: Injecting plus manually by ahmetgns on 04-01-2007 at 08:38 AM
Did you read this post?
http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=71839&page=1
It may help you.
Btw WELCOME!!!
RE: RE: Injecting plus manually by Novastar827 on 04-01-2007 at 08:49 AM
quote:
Originally posted by ahmetgns
Did you read this post?
http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=71839&page=1
It may help you.
Btw WELCOME!!!
I actually read that before I posted, but it's not quite the same thing.
RE: Injecting plus manually by Patchou on 04-01-2007 at 05:23 PM
when Plus! loads, it checks some keys in HKLM to know where to find its files. Are you sure your virtualizer emulates those path properly? there shouldn't be any problem as the sole job of msimg32.dll is to load the other DLL. You can email me at mplus@patchou.com and I'll check that out.