New Windows exploit found - can infect your computer just by viewing an image

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Intel's chart, see the Execute Disable Bit column at the far right

You still want to enable DEP for all software for it to work, as shown in this pic.

I would tread lightly on enabling DEP for *EVERYTHING*. There are no events logged when a program is blocked and if this happens to block a process that's needed on legitmate software, really strange things start to happen. We had several programs that did NOTHING when they were run and sure enough going back and turning DEP to use windows files only (default) fixed this. Just a heads up.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: C6FT7

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Intel's chart, see the Execute Disable Bit column at the far right

You still want to enable DEP for all software for it to work, as shown in this pic.

I would tread lightly on enabling DEP for *EVERYTHING*. There are no events logged when a program is blocked and if this happens to block a process that's needed on legitmate software, really strange things start to happen. We had several programs that did NOTHING when they were run and sure enough going back and turning DEP to use windows files only (default) fixed this. Just a heads up.

In this case it would be better to make the necessary exceptions.

 

[ScottFern]

Has it been reported that this is occurring on bit torrent search pages? :/

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: C6FT7

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Intel's chart, see the Execute Disable Bit column at the far right

You still want to enable DEP for all software for it to work, as shown in this pic.

I would tread lightly on enabling DEP for *EVERYTHING*. There are no events logged when a program is blocked and if this happens to block a process that's needed on legitmate software, really strange things start to happen. We had several programs that did NOTHING when they were run and sure enough going back and turning DEP to use windows files only (default) fixed this. Just a heads up.

Same here. Our systems procedure had DEP only enabled for the OS, but one of our softwares would not run at all with no error message or anything. After several of us dinked around with the machine for several days, I finally figured out that DEP was accidentally enabled for everything, but warning on all critical events was disabled, so it was a silent shutdown of the software.