Once again, after a Windows update, Windows Defender activated itself again. It finally bothered me enough to take an actual look at how to disable it permanently and reliably, in a fully automated way (a PowerShell script), on my Windows 10 20H2 (build 19042).
Category : Tooling
IDA PRO life easier : a python plugin turning function parameters to enum values
As an introduction to IDA python, we’re going to write a script that turns immediate values function parameters into enum values. It is a very common things to do, and a simple python script can handle it in most cases. So let’s make our lives easier with some python !
Solving an IDA Bug – struct list with blank elements
The other day, I encountered an isse with IDA pro 7.5: my struct and enum list left panel became empty, with blank elements. As you can see belo, It was unusable:
I have no idea how this happended exactly. IN the end I had to contact the support, and here is their solution, a single python commnd:
import ida_netnode
ida_netnode.netnode("$ dirtree/structs").kill()
You can then save and reopen the idb, the list should have been updated and be fine. You’ll lose the folders though, but it’s not that long to do so it’s ok.
This command also works with enums instead of structs, and maybe other pannels like this.