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?"

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It does little for Windows

[Stephen Samuel]

For Linux and BSD systems this is a major boon, because it helps protect users from programmers with sloppy programming practices.

With Windows, however, the problem is sloppy system design. the NX bit does little to protect users from an OS that is designed insecurely. That's not to say that MS doesn't also have it's share of programmers who make mistakes that allow buffer overflows, etc. -- but that problem just gets lost in the systemic noise.

Re:Dutch people

[chawly]

Cultural ..... if you like. Might want to define it like "The Dutch come from a very small country called Holland. In Holland there exists one very big company called Philips. Philips has a very well defined corporate point of view (I nearly said culture) regarding innovation which is not theirs" Don't you folks have a saying "What's good for General Motors is good for America"? Well in Holland that goes "if it even might be bad for Philips, then it's shit". As for herpes - I hear that, in America, they're not against it.