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Data Execution Protection
esarjeant writes "In addition to a number of other security features, anti-virus vendors are starting to push buffer overflow detection. This will be part of Microsoft's future direction with Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and is already integrated with McAfee 8.0i. So it looks like everyone is going to upgrade all of their software again, will software vendors be able to keep up with the support calls?"
Who buys viruses?
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Virus vendors have been pushing buffer overflows for quite some time ...
Virus venders.. hmmm For just £39.95 a month, you too can recieve the latest virii, trojans and worms directly to your inbox.
"Will software vendors be able to keep up with the support calls?" No. Customers are going to have to wait on hold for... Oh... Nevermind.
I feel safer already.
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Regardless of how you feel about data crimes, it is not moral for capital punishment to be applied to data, regardless of the heinessness of the alleged crime.
Sometimes, serious crimes such as participating in the films "Star Trek 9" and "Star Trek 10" need serious punishment. Data is indeed guilty.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
"Hey, my 3ghz computer is running as slow as a Pentium 1.5ghz... Why is that?"
"Oh that's all the new virus checking that runs the executables before they run to make sure they don't have any viruses in them."
So y'see... Viruses ARE good for the industry!
The main protection Linux has is the developers looking at Microsoft and saying, "See those guys? Let's not be like those guys."
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DEC Alpha + OpenVMS = no such thing as a buffer overflow and 64 bit processing as well.
DEC ported the Microsoft DCOM implementation from Windows to OpenVMS, including its buffer overflow bugs.
You were at your buddy's place to watch the Super Bowl. The chips ran out in the second quarter. Since you knew there was no way the half time show was going to be as interesting this year, you volunteered to go get more.
On your way out you made a mental note to come back to your buddy's place, rather than your own. This is the return address. You also made a mental note that you needed potato chips and another case of beer. That list is in your buffer.
Your other "friend", a known sponge who still owes several people for beer at various events dating back 3 years now, comes along. While you are at the store, he throws an extra case into the cart. He'll pay you back later.
That annoyed you enough that you forgot whose house you were going back to. You ended up at your place before you realized it. As a result, you missed the first few minutes of the third quarter.
The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.