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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.
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.