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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. Re:What is it with the buffer overflows?` by plastic.person · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    What the hell....fuck up.

    Please cease the cursing, my 4 year old visits this website. Thanks.