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Asked: 2026-05-16T13:50:59+00:00

I have a process that will have some important values in the memory. I

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I have a process that will have some important values in the memory. I don’t want anyone to be able to read the memory of my process and obtain those values. So I tried to create a program that would look at the list of programs running and determine if any of them were “debuggers”, etc. But I realized that someone could just write a quick program to dump the memory of my process. I know several process on my system have their memory protected. How could I also obtain this? (ps: I’m using C#)

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    Any application that runs under an user with enough privileged (eg. local administrator) can call ReadProcessMemory and read your process at will, any time, without being attached to your process debugging port, and without your processing being able to prevent, or even detect this. And I’m not even going into what is possible for a system kernel driver to do…

    Ultimately, all solutions available to do this are either snake oil, or just a way to obfuscate the problem by raising the bar to make it harder. Some do make it really hard, but none make it bullet-proof. But ultimately, one cannot hide anything from a user that has physical access to the machine and has sufficiently elevated privileges.

    If you don’t want users to read something, simply don’t have on the user machine. Use a service model where your IP is on a server and users access it via internet (ie. web services).

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