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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 tengu1sd · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does that open the door to virus EULA and copywrite issues? Other than Microsoft what other virus vendors are out there?

  2. And all this protection... by Phidoux · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...what does it do for us? Allow Microsoft even more freedom to sell us crappy software?

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