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After I read this "By default, DEP is enabled in Windows XP SP2, and you cannot disable it. 64-bit applications will not run from the stack or from the default process heap. Applications that want to allocate executable memory may do so by using the VirtualAlloc() function with one of the PAGE_EXECUTE* memory attributes."
And this "We are investigating methods to disable or enable DEP on a per-application basis for 32-bit applications. By default, 64-bit applications are expected to function with DEP enabled. A DEP exception will cause the STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) status code on Windows systems. In most processes, this will be an unhandled exception and will cause termination of the process.
I got the impression it may be something they are working on for the SP2, because SP2 uses a newer (DEP).
“Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 uses a new data execution prevention (DEP)”
But if you say it’s really something Avast will fix do you have an idea when?
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