messagebox bug - Visual Basic .NET

Richard Bond

Hi,

Messageboxes emitted from my vb.net windows forms applications have suddenly
stopped rendering messagetext and button text. What is the best plan of
action regarding components to try repairing/reinstalling?
(I have already reinstalled the framework to no avail)

Line of Code example:

MessageBox.Show("Some display text.", "An Example Title")

The title is displayed correctly however messagetext and button text are
missing.
The same codes works fine on other machines, and vb6 apllications work fine
on my pc.

OS = Windows Server 2000
Framework Version = 1.1.4322 SP1
Development Environment = 7.1.3.088

I am beggining to get quite disappoited with .net quirkiness in general now

regards,

Richard

Nov 21 '05 #1

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Gerald Hernandez

Have you recently installed or upgraded any virus scan software?
There is a known bug in McAfee v8 that can cause exactly what you are
seeing, or not as the case may be.

Gerald

"Richard Bond" <Ri**********@tnsofres.com> wrote in message
news:eD**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hi,

Messageboxes emitted from my vb.net windows forms applications have suddenly stopped rendering messagetext and button text. What is the best plan of
action regarding components to try repairing/reinstalling?
(I have already reinstalled the framework to no avail)

Line of Code example:

MessageBox.Show("Some display text.", "An Example Title")

The title is displayed correctly however messagetext and button text are
missing.
The same codes works fine on other machines, and vb6 apllications work fine on my pc.

OS = Windows Server 2000
Framework Version = 1.1.4322 SP1
Development Environment = 7.1.3.088

I am beggining to get quite disappoited with .net quirkiness in general now
regards,

Richard

Nov 21 '05 #2

Richard Bond

absolutely spot on!

I had my virus scanner remotely updated to McAfee v8 today.
Is there a patch I can download?

thanks very much for the reply,

Richard

(P.S. apologies to MS this time round)
"Gerald Hernandez" <Cablewizard@sp*********@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:OH**************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

Have you recently installed or upgraded any virus scan software?
There is a known bug in McAfee v8 that can cause exactly what you are
seeing, or not as the case may be.

Gerald

"Richard Bond" <Ri**********@tnsofres.com> wrote in message
news:eD**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Hi,

Messageboxes emitted from my vb.net windows forms applications have

suddenly
stopped rendering messagetext and button text. What is the best plan of
action regarding components to try repairing/reinstalling?
(I have already reinstalled the framework to no avail)

Line of Code example:

MessageBox.Show("Some display text.", "An Example Title")

The title is displayed correctly however messagetext and button text are
missing.
The same codes works fine on other machines, and vb6 apllications work

fine
on my pc.

OS = Windows Server 2000
Framework Version = 1.1.4322 SP1
Development Environment = 7.1.3.088

I am beggining to get quite disappoited with .net quirkiness in general

now

regards,

Richard

Nov 21 '05 #3

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"Richard Bond" <Ri**********@tnsofres.com> schrieb:

MessageBox.Show("Some display text.", "An Example Title")

The title is displayed correctly however messagetext and button text are
missing.

This behavior is caused by buffer overflow protection of McAfee AntiVirus 8.
By installing available updates the problem should go away:

<URL:news:f5******************************@localho st.talkaboutsoftware.com>:

| After last update (now I have VirusScan Enterprise
| 8.0.0 with Scan engine 4320 and Buffer Overflow
| Protection Deifnitions 131; Patch Versions
| 1, 4, 5, 7,8, 9) the problem disappeared!

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

Nov 21 '05 #4

CJ Taylor

In Virus Scan Console, disable buffer overrun protection.
"Richard Bond" <Ri**********@tnsofres.com> wrote in message
news:Oz**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

absolutely spot on!

I had my virus scanner remotely updated to McAfee v8 today.
Is there a patch I can download?

thanks very much for the reply,

Richard

(P.S. apologies to MS this time round)
"Gerald Hernandez" <Cablewizard@sp*********@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:OH**************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
Have you recently installed or upgraded any virus scan software?
There is a known bug in McAfee v8 that can cause exactly what you are
seeing, or not as the case may be.

Gerald

"Richard Bond" <Ri**********@tnsofres.com> wrote in message
news:eD**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Messageboxes emitted from my vb.net windows forms applications have

suddenly
> stopped rendering messagetext and button text. What is the best plan of
> action regarding components to try repairing/reinstalling?
> (I have already reinstalled the framework to no avail)
>
> Line of Code example:
>
> MessageBox.Show("Some display text.", "An Example Title")
>
> The title is displayed correctly however messagetext and button text
> are
> missing.
> The same codes works fine on other machines, and vb6 apllications work

fine
> on my pc.
>
> OS = Windows Server 2000
> Framework Version = 1.1.4322 SP1
> Development Environment = 7.1.3.088
>
> I am beggining to get quite disappoited with .net quirkiness in general

now
>
> regards,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>

Nov 21 '05 #5

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