NX Buffer overflow protection?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Heavy Mettle Squid, Dec 9, 2010.

  1. Heavy Mettle Squid

    Heavy Mettle Squid Private E-2

    Would some one please tell me the simplest way to determine whether my AMD A64 Venice core 3200+ CPU uses AMD's NX buffer overflow protection?
     
    Heavy Mettle Squid, Dec 9, 2010
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  2. scajjr

    scajjr Sergeant

    It is built into the CPU and has to have support from whatever operating system you are using. Starting with service pack 2 in XP it's in Windows. It's not foolproof in stopping overflows but it helps.

    Sam
     
    scajjr, Dec 9, 2010
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  3. Heavy Mettle Squid

    Heavy Mettle Squid Private E-2

    Thanks for the answer. I wanted to know so that I could tell whether or not I should use use /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN as an OS Load Option after using BOOTCFG /REBUILD from the Windows Recovery Panel. I did.

    Unfortunately, the boot rebuild did not solve my problem...:(
     
    Heavy Mettle Squid, Dec 10, 2010
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  4. 94dgrif

    94dgrif Corporal

    What is your problem? Malware keeps coming back?
     
    94dgrif, Dec 12, 2010
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