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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. support calls by millahtime · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

    Yes, with more automation, more people on the other end (most likely in India) and more cost passed onto the customer. When I used to work we used to have a saying. "If it weren't for Microsoft, we would all be out of jobs"

    --
    Evolution or ID?
  2. Keeping your developers happy by Aslan72 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The huge problem with McAfee 8.0i has been figuring out a policy that protects from buffer overruns and keeps your developers happy; I've had to loosen the restrictions for those folks because as you put together stuff in vstudio and attempt to debug it, McAfee's Buffer Overrun flags it and doesn't allow it to run :(.

    --pete