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Data Execution Protection

Posted by Hemos on from the protection-from-our-own-stupidity dept.

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?"

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  1. Virus vendors? by King+Of+Chat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who buys viruses?

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    1. Re:Virus vendors? by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 3, Funny

      I hope they don't have it on the same hard drive as their Norton Virus; if those two come into contact ... it would be bad.

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  2. virus vendors? by 2020hindsight · · Score: 3, Funny

    Virus vendors have been pushing buffer overflows for quite some time ...

  3. Virus vendors eh? by kevb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Virus venders.. hmmm For just £39.95 a month, you too can recieve the latest virii, trojans and worms directly to your inbox.

    1. Re:Virus vendors eh? by RaguMS · · Score: 3, Funny

      Virus venders.. hmmm For just £39.95 a month, you too can recieve the latest virii, trojans and worms directly to your inbox.

      What a ripoff... I get all of mine for free.

  4. Glad this is being addressed... :P by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 5, Funny
    This will be part of Microsoft's future direction with Data Execution Prevention (DEP)


    I feel safer already.

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  5. Time to buy a new computer again... by the_skywise · · Score: 5, Funny


    "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!