Visual Studio and the Cisco Security Agent

[jeffpriz]

We have some developers here that work from home a couple days a week.
The network/hardware group here has installed a Cisco Security Agent
program on thier laptops.

Now, when they work from home they regularly get the IIS "Server
Application Unavailable" message when running the application in Debug
mode.. The Cisco Security Agent seems to be the culprit.. it comes back
with the message that the aspnet_wp.exe has tried to call CreateFileW
on my aspx file from a buffer.. blah blah blah (lots of memory
addresses)..
It says: "This either happens when a program uses self-modifying code
or when a program has been subverted by a buffer overflow attack. The
program has been terminated."

So I'm guessing that the CSA is attempting to block buffer overflows..
but that the .Net debug process is using "self-modifying code" to run..

Has anybody else run into this trouble?

is there any work-arounds that anybody knows of?

thanks
jeffpriz

[thevirge]

je******@yahoo.com wrote:

We have some developers here that work from home a couple days a week. The network/hardware group here has installed a Cisco Security Agent
program on thier laptops.

Now, when they work from home they regularly get the IIS "Server
Application Unavailable" message when running the application in Debug mode.. The Cisco Security Agent seems to be the culprit.. it comes back with the message that the aspnet_wp.exe has tried to call CreateFileW
on my aspx file from a buffer.. blah blah blah (lots of memory
addresses)..
It says: "This either happens when a program uses self-modifying code
or when a program has been subverted by a buffer overflow attack. The
program has been terminated."

So I'm guessing that the CSA is attempting to block buffer overflows.. but that the .Net debug process is using "self-modifying code" to run..
Has anybody else run into this trouble?

is there any work-arounds that anybody knows of?

thanks
jeffpriz

Your IT department needs to create an rule exception for that policy.
It takes about 2 minutes and you will not be blocked anymore.

theVirge