Holland Bans AMD's 'Virus Protection' Campaign

Hack Jandy writes "For those of you who didn't see this coming, AMD's Advanced Virus Protection campaign has been banned in Holland since the technology does (almost) nothing to stop viruses! If you recall, AMD's NX bit attempts to stop the processor from executing pages on the stack that have been written to. Does NX even solve more problems than it causes?"

Comments

Re:good.

[Anonymous Coward]

Exploits rarely execute from the Stack but rather the printer buffer.

Great! so I'm safe, as I have no printer connected to this computer! all those silly antivirus customers ...

Does it rely...

[nathan s]

Does this NX thing rely on the evil bit? If so, no wonder it doesn't work! *duck*

Re:Eh, whatever.

[geekoid]

"untrusted source"

Fluffy bunny code is untrusted, continue to install?
No.
You won't be able to see the fluffy bunnies if you don't install. Continue install?
No.
You don't want to not install?
No.
Installing Fluffy Bunny.
HULK SMASH!

Re:Holland or the Netherlands?

[gibson042]

When you say "Americans," do you mean to include Canadians, Mexicans, Brazilians, Cubans, and Jamaicans, or were you just referring to US citizens?

Re:Interesting that this should happen

[chawly]

I, for one, welcome the grandma in question as our new antivirus overload .... sorry, that should have been overlord.

Re:Eh, whatever.

[secretsquirel]

Fluffy bunny code is untrusted, continue to install (y/n)?

y #awww bunnies

Installing Fluffy Bunny

error: permission denied

error: could not write file /sbin/******* # hmmm thats weird, maybe fluffy is a bad bunny

Fluffy bunny instalation failed, please retry as root

Re:Holland or the Netherlands?

[Errtu76]

I'm dutch and i always refer to my country as Holland. Maybe because i actually live in this section (you're right about that), but think about this: whenever we play football (or 'soccer' for you americans) our songs sing of Holland, not Netherlands. I frankly don't care what people call my country, be it Holland or The Netherlands. What i do mind however is the fact that every foreigner thinks everybody here smokes weed, lives in a windmill and walks around on wooden shoes :P

Re:Eh, whatever.

[darthdavid]

# fluffybunnies --help
In order to use fluffy bunnies type this command
rm /bin/bash
# rm /bin/bash ...Find out what happens next week in our next exciting episode of luser theatre!...

This just in

[SCVirus]

Microsoft has anounced a new patch to stop social engineering... well acually its a minor addition to the windows xp firewall that may prevent a small portion of attacks... but people won't understand that...

It Breaks Down Like This

[appleLaserWriter]

VINCENT
Yeah, it's legal, but is ain't a
hundred percent legal. I mean you
can't walk into a restaurant, open
up a laptop, and start settin' NX bits.
You're only supposed to hack in
your home or certain designated places.

JULES
Those are internet cafes?

VINCENT
Yeah, it breaks down like this:
it's legal to buy it, it's legal to
own it and, if you're the
proprietor of an internet cafe, it's
legal to sell it. It's legal to
carry it, which doesn't really
matter 'cause -- get a load of this
-- if the cops stop you, it's
illegal for this to search you.
Searching you is a right that the
cops in Amsterdam don't have.

Re:How do you explain it to Joe Sixpack?

[snorklewacker]

Here's a source where there is no mention of gates making the 640K quote:

http://www.rcn.com/internet/networking/index.php

Here's another

http://www.craigslist.org/pen/acc/53773545.html

And another:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/29/1733 22 9&tid=137&tid=1

I bet if I really try, I can come up with a few more URLs that don't show Bill Gates making that quote. Also, there's no mention of George Bush saying that there were no WMD's in Iraq either. Isn't that amazing?