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should I set DEP to always on?

 
 
james
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      01-19-2010
DEP (data execution protection) should make the computer immune to all
buffer overflow attacks, right?

Has anyone set DEP to always on for all processes (vista 32-bit)? Are there
alot of crashes or even corrupt files?

 
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      01-19-2010
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> DEP (data execution protection) should make the computer immune to all
> buffer overflow attacks, right?


Only the canary killers.

> Has anyone set DEP to always on for all processes (vista 32-bit)?


Yes.

> Are there alot of crashes or even corrupt files?


No.



 
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