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Chips to fight viruses
Friday, 9 January 2004 13:18 ESTAMD and Intel are developing technology that will prevent processors being hijacked by attackers. Advanced Micro Devices and Intel plan to release technology that will allow processors to stop many attacks before they occur. Execution Protection by AMD, technology contained in AMD's Athlon 64 chips, prevents a buffer overflow, which is a common method used to attack computers. A buffer overflow essentially overwhelms a computer's defence systems and then inserts a malicious program in memory that the processor subsequently executes.
With Execution Protection, data in the buffer can only be read and, therefore, is prevented from doing its dirty work, John Morris, director of marketing at AMD, said in an interview on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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