Data Execution Prevention closes Internet Explorer 8
Has anyone ran into this problem? Periodically, I get the following message since I installed Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2.
Internet Explorer was closed
To help protect your computer, Data Execution Prevention has closed Internet Explorer. Click to learn more.
The funny thing is, nothing seems to close. IE remains running. Does anyone know what causes this? Is it an addon, like Google Toolbar? Or just a bug?
Update: I’m pretty suspicious its a Google Toolbar problem. Several times this error has occured when I open a new tab. The tab will still open, but Google Toolbar will not appear on the new tab.
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The workaround of this issue is to get into Tools>> Internet options>> Advanced Tab>> Scroll down the list and uncheck the option which says Enable memory protection to help mitigate online attacks and click apply and ok. You are done… And FYI this issue occurs due to conflict from toolbars or other IE related applications……TC
I have trouble with internet explorer 8. internet explorer at responding or closed down. what is wrong with it. try to redownload explorer 7 but it won’t let me.help with this problem
Vous avez fait de bons points là. J’ai fait une recherche sur le sujet et a trouvé la plupart des gens seront d’accord avec votre blog.
Hang Fasel
Sorry dude but I’m not hooked on phonics. It appears to be French, but I don’t know.
How do you uninstall this program…..it keeps kicking me out of explorer…..
Thanks lot man..You may God bless you..!
@Pawan
Thanks Pawan. Mine does DEP when I exit IE8. Mostly use FF.
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Translate French to English
Copy Hang Fasel’s post to text, then click translate. You get this…
“You made good points there. I made a research on the subject and found the majority of people will be of agreement with your blog.”
what can you do when data execution prevention closed the internet explorer?
@Pawan
I looked for this file enable memory protection and cannot find it..
It’s not toolbars or addons or anything, its a bug for sure. Sometimes I just get a DEP error and a tab will close on a normal site that has absolutely nothing wrong with it, other times I get a tab crash in mshtml.dll for no apparent reason. I do suspect it is because of using the InPrivate Filtering feature, mshtml.dll must have a memory leak or some crap with it.
I tried the workaround for this issues that was suggested by Pawan, but it will not let me uncheck the box. I have this problem on normal websites that I visit but it doesn’t close the windows. It happens constantly and is very annoying. I don’t have any toolbars installed. What else can I do to fix this? Thank you for your help.
Pawan. You are the man! Thanks so much for the fix. It was driving me NUTZ! Thanks again.
This worked for me, but I’m using XP. The same commands might work for your OS:
http://bluescreensolutions.blogspot.com/2009/12/data-execution-prevention-internet.html
@Pawan
I tried to uncheck that box but it wont let me. It only highlights the words. Any sugg?
Same as @melanie here (IE 8, Windows 7 x86). The box is grayed out and the “Internet Options” dialog won’t let me uncheck the option. This is not really a big disruption, as I have the policy of avoiding using IE as a browser and staying mostly with Firefox, but occasionally some sites or circumstances force me to use IE.
I tried to run IE with all add-ons disabled (there is an icon for this under Accessories – System Tools) but the same error happened. So, in spite of what the error message says, the problem does not seem to be related to any add-on.
I suspect that in my case the problem has to do with the emergency security patch that Microsoft released in mid-January 2010, out of its normal Windows Update schedule. The problem didn’t happen before that, and I hadn’t used IE after that until now. MS had to rush with that patch to respond to growing pressure from the public and the press (the security flaw was supposed to have enabled the highly publicized hacking of Google, Adobe and other companies). I remember that one of the mitigation measures MS suggested before releasing the patch was turning DEP on, and now it can’t be disabled.
If it is really so, we will have to wait until the next “Patch Tuesday” (which should be February 9, 2010) and hope that MS releases a fix then.
Yesterday I also had two “performance enhancement” Windows Updates whose installation failed. It may or may not have to do with the problem, and if so, IE’s problem may have caused the failed installs or the other way around. With any other program, the first thing to do would be trying to reinstall it, but one can’t do that with IE 8 on Windows 7, as it is part of the system itself (Vista had the same limitation with IE 7). I feel so helpless!