"Saucy Lemon" <saucy@s.can.be> wrote in message
news:Oi7wY6lEGHA.140@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> 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.

....and software DEP will not protect against the WMF vulnerability, and probably
others; only hardware DEP will, in XP.
Please stop cross-posting these XP discussions to the 98 groups.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
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