New processor technology that should help eliminate Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities. How many Windows Updates will this make unnessicary?
AMD, Intel put antivirus tech into chips | CNET News.com: "'Now in current processors, any programs that go into the memory overflow can be executed,' he said. 'With this, the system only allows read-only in the buffer. It will not execute.' The malicious program is then disposed harmlessly when the PC is turned off, he said. "
1/09/2004
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