Thread: [Merged] Microsoft Security Updates
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Old 24-07-2004, 16:31   #18
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Re: Microsoft Security Updates
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Originally Posted by Alan Waddington

I believe that the next step MS will be taking will be to remove write access to pages that are supposed to only contain program code. This should help a bit.
Support is built into XP SP2. It's called "Data Execution Protection". It works better if your CPU supports it (although I believe that only the Athlon 64 bit processors provide this support at the moment), but it should hopefully be quit effective.
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