What Is Data Execution Prevention (DEP)?

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Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a Microsoft security technology (for Windows operating systems) that prevents malicious code from being executed from system memory locations. By using a set of hardware and software technologies DEP is performing additional checks in memory to help protect against exploits. Malware may be executing malicious code from memory locations that […]

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