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

Appreciate the follow-up.

"Saucy Lemon" <saucy@s.can.be> wrote in message
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> 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.
>>
>>

>
> 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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