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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. Umm... by dhbiker · · Score: 0, Troll

    This may sound really dumb, but isn't it up to the guy who wrote the vulnerability in the first place to fix it? (in other words wouldn't microsoft be better off fixing the code? I mean if they can detect buffer overflows then why not put a box up, infect it with everything under the sun and fix all the problems?) ps. how the hell do you detect an overflow?