glee wrote:
> "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.

Actually, Windows 98 is affected. The risk is not "critical" as the attack
vector is not the same for Windows 98. Besides, more generally, Windows 98
is vulnerable to buffer overrrun exploits of various sorts, something which
a hardware and software upgrade could preclude and should probably be
considered by Windows 98 users.

When I posted the original post, I did so with the fact in mind that Windows
98 is potentially vulnerable - so I think it is OK to have cross-posted to
the Windows 98 'general' group. And I'm not going to stop cross-posting now
this far into the thread, especially since you saw fit to both comment and
crosspost yourself.