Currently the AMD Athlon 64 series and the Operton support the NX (Data Excution Prevention)command under WinXP Service Pack 2. I'm not sure how many, if any other CPU's support it.
I currenty have an Athlong 64 +3200 and have switch the feature on once just to see what it does.
You can specify what programs can be run and anything outside of that won't run.
Funny thing is that while most of the WinXP apps can run under it without putting it in the exception list, Movie Player 2 won't run unless you do put it in the exception list...bwhahaha
I can see it very usefull on systems you just want specific programs and utilities to run, and nothing else.
But it would be annoying to go through my system and have to manually put the majority of applications on the exceptions list.
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Currently the AMD Athlon 64 series and the Operton support the NX (Data Excution Prevention)command under WinXP Service Pack 2. I'm not sure how many, if any other CPU's support it. I currenty have an Athlong 64 +3200 and have switch the feature on once just to see what it does. You can specify what programs can be run and anything outside of that won't run. Funny thing is that while most of the WinXP apps can run under it without putting it in the exception list, Movie Player 2 won't run unless you do put it in the exception list...bwhahaha I can see it very usefull on systems you just want specific programs and utilities to run, and nothing else. But it would be annoying to go through my system and have to manually put the majority of applications on the exceptions list.