Secure Your Windows With DEP
August 18, 2007
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies designed to prevent malicious code from running in memory. The majority of malware exploits buffer overruns in Windows or other software to run malicious code in memory. DEP prevents code in protected memory spaces from running.
Source: Digg.com – Posted by: mingxhin
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