It does no one any good unless it's turned on. Unfortunately, however, in every case, hardware DEP support is disabled for all or most of the system's software by default.

Support for hardware DEP was introduced into the 32-bit versions of Windows XP with Service Pack 2, into Windows 2003 Server with Service Pack 1, and has always been present in Windows Vista.

So when Microsoft introduced support for this into their operating systems, they termed it Hardware DEP for Data Execution Prevention. Intel calls this capability in their newer processors XD for “e Xecute Disable” and AMD refers to it as NX for “ No e Xecute.” AMD's marketing materials also sometimes refer to this capability by the annoying marketing term EVP for Enhanced Virus Protection.Īs a hardware capability of modern processors this addition is important, but its use depends entirely upon support from the operating system. This means that the memory can be used to store reference data to be read and written, but that the processor cannot treat the contents of the memory as program code to be directly executed.

Modern processor hardware can be instructed to designate regions of memory as non-executable.

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