David Heffernan

In the face of malware, curiosity needs be tempered somewhat.

Astounding that people here apparently followed these links

These are open source projects

I mean, aren't we all people who write code? I find it odd to hear programmers that don't want to program because they aren't able to do it right.

Would be quicker just to write them yourself

I'm not even sure what you are asking us for here. What would a positive outcome to this thread look like?

Nobody expects the Delphi compiler to optimise anything

It depends. If I'm going to initialise every field I wouldn't default initialise. Many of my records have class methods named New that don't default initialise and assign to each field. I wouldn't want to offer blanket advice. Default initialise if you need to default initialise.

Try a search engine, or perhaps github

Clearly there's a problem. But nobody knows anything about your code, because you've not shared any actionable details. Surely you understand that we can't guess what's wrong?

Do we just have to guess what you are doing? Step back, and look at this thread, from top to bottom, and ask yourself how we could possibly say anything about what is happening on your machine. If you genuinely want help, then you need to help us to help you.

I can't believe that modifying Windows path could be a wise thing to do in this scenario. Who advises that?

You didn't specify that the pattern had to exhaust the entire string. Capture the match, look at the match, and see. Use a Web tool to test regex and see the matches. This will help you learn more quickly.

Yeah, I think you can ignore that answer, it's really not relevant to your question. What you are trying to do is possible by iterating over the node and its children. I would start with some code to do that iteration. Do you have such code?

I guess I misunderstood when the subject said file manifest. Details are quite important.

Why do you have a manifest file. It should be a linked resource. Delete the .manifest file.

Is that in part because of the cost of healthcare in the US?

Oh dear, I'm not having a good day. I think that obce upon a time this wasn't documented as such, and I've not kept up. But I could be wrong about that too!

Oh. Sorry. My mistake. Only in the Unicode version is an implementation detail though. I wouldn't rely on it.

I don't think that's true. You should use UniqueString. But it sounds like this isn't the cause of your problem.

The documentation says the first arg is LPCWSTR, pointer to const array. If you want to make a string writeable use UniqueString.

First argument of CreateProcess must be writeable? Is it?

The big problem here is that there is no detail. There should be a cv or a link to a linkedin profile.

No. CoInitialize doesn't report errors by throwing exceptions. You are expected to check its return value. This is stated clearly in the documentation for the function which is required reading before using it. Let's leave error handling to one side for now though. The try finally pattern is like this. res := acquireResource; try res.doSomething; finally releaseResource(res); end; The try/finally is protecting the code *between* acquisition and release. Therefore the try must be *after* acquisition.

This code is wrong. The try is always placed after the resource has been acquired.