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JeduMiSePalacinke
JeduMiSePalacinke

Reputation: 77

C++ Reading memory from a string

I was trying to read a memory from explorer.exe. With a program process hacker I found that on the address 0xfa07f8 this string is stored: \??\C:\Program Files\Process Hacker 2\ProcessHacker.exe

When I try to read the string of this address, I get only the first character of the string back. The '\' char. How can I read the whole string?

char buffer[255] = { 0 };
unsigned addr = 0xfa07f8;
if (ReadProcessMemory(proc, (LPVOID)addr, &buffer, sizeof(buffer), NULL))
{
    MessageBoxA(NULL, buffer, NULL, NULL);
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 486

Answers (1)

jkb
jkb

Reputation: 2450

You are reading wide characters from the process memory. MessageBoxA is for displaying "narrow" characters.

To display wide characters, use MessageBoxW.

Upvotes: 2

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