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AMD/ATI Video Drivers: Unsafe At Any Speed
An anonymous reader writes "CERT/CC has called out AMD for having insecure video drivers. AMD/ATI video drivers are incompatible with system-wide ASLR. 'Always On' DEP combined with 'Always On' ASLR are effective exploit mitigations. However, most people don't know about 'Always On' ASLR since Microsoft had to hide it from EMET with an 'EnableUnsafeSettings' registry key — because AMD/ATI video drivers will cause a BSOD on boot if 'Always On' ASLR is enabled."
...because it crashes before any malware can do any damage.
AMD may not have the best drivers, but I dont recall any AMD drivers that allowed me to play games and fry eggs with the same piece of hardware like Nvidia.
You're absolutely right; AMD's drivers rarely allow you to play games.
Sorry to hear about that. Sounds like you could have saved yourself a lot of trouble by using ASLR compatible drivers.
Oh, and by the way, your mom called. She says she didn't stretch her Vag all out of shape so you could grow up and be a forum spammer, and that you should find something new to do with your life.
More stable than water anyway.
wow. somehow click on the wrong reply button and reply to myself. so i look like an idiot. bah, i'm going to lunch.