Windows XP SP2 and enhanced memory protection

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Carey Frisch
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"Simon Merrell" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message:
news:F5C8C0AA-0A07-4AA6-BF65-2C64EC48CE3E@microsoft.com...

| Does anyone know more about this new "enhanced memory protection" coming in
windows XP sp2? Would like to know some more details on this, and also if the
same technology is coming for Windows 2000 or Server 2003?
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| Here's an extract:
| "Kaplan admitted that Microsoft's record on security has "not been good
enough", but he claims the company is improving. Security is now the number one
priority for Microsoft and that will be demonstrated with SP2, he said,
revealing that the update will contain enhanced memory protection in an attempt
to reduce the operating system's vulnerability to buffer overflow exploits. "One
of the primary way worms get onto the system is by what they call a buffer
overflow. There is a new technology that lets us lock out people's ability to
install code in Windows using a buffer overflow," he said."
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| Full article
| http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-5091381.html