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Windows Vista Security: Praxisorientierte Sicherheit für Profis
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Windows Vista Security: Praxisorientierte Sicherheit für Profis

by Marcus Nasarek
January 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
486 pages
36h 31m
German
O'Reilly Verlag
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Chapter 3: Fine-Tuning Windows Vista’s Appearance and Performance
Fine-Tuning Data Execution Prevention
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a memory protection technology. Your com-
puter uses DEP to mark all memory locations used by applications as nonexecutable
unless the location explicitly contains executable code. If an application attempts to
execute code from a memory page marked as nonexecutable, the processor can raise
an exception and prevent it from executing. This behavior is designed to thwart a
malicious program, such as a virus, from inserting itself into areas of memory. By
allowing only specific areas of memory to run executable
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ISBN: 9783897214668