Hello,
I recently installed EMET 4.0 and have been enabling it for some applications to see how it interacts with my system. One of the first programs I tested was notepad, and here I ran into a problem. My computer (with Windows 7) has six separate copies of notepad.exe in various folders. The internet tells me that this is probably for compatibility purposes:
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/03/28/563008.aspx?Redirected=true
Unfortunately, I cannot protect all of these executables with EMET because their identical names conflict. If I add protections to one, the others will still execute without protections, and EMET will not allow me to add protections to the others, giving me an error message like this:
"C:\Windows\notepad.exe" conflicts with existing entry for "C:\Windows\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE"
More generally, this conflict likely occurs for other applications. Is there any way to protect multiple executables with the same name? I realize I could enable system-wide protections, but that tends to break things, so I'd rather avoid it.
Thanks for the replies,
Kommodore