I recently ran into a troubling issue. Our Antivirus product uses an MSI
installer. As part of the unattended install method used by the product
they include a compatible version of the windows installer (in case the
target client needs a newer version to install the product).
The problem is on my XP SP2 clients where DEP (Data Execution Prevention) is
enabled in its defualt form.
From Article ID:875352 - A Detailed description of DEp in XPsp2
"This setting is the default configuration .....With this option, only
Windows system binaries are covered by DEP by default."
When the MSI installer (instmsiw.exe) is called DEP intervenes and disables
the installer from installing the newer version. I would think that
Microsoft is creating executables would not cause issues with the XPsp2
software DEP - however this appears not to be the case.
The currently installed MSI version is 3.01.4000.1823
Anyone experience issue similar?
What's the best way to notify microsoft of such issues?
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