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Old 01-06-2006, 02:05 AM
Saucy Lemon
 
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Default Re: No WMF Exploit - If you have DEP capable CPUs and DEP enabled

R. McCarty wrote:
> I believe that all PCs that have hardware DEP, have a Toggle setting
> in BIOS to enable/disable it. Not sure if there are other ways to
> determine if it's present from within Windows.
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The System Applet's Data Execution Prevention tab will indicate. If the CPU
doesn't, the software DEP can still be enabled but a note will appear at the
bottom mentioning that your computer's does not support hardware based DEP.
It works best if the hardware supports DEP.


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