Monday, June 7, 2004

CPU-based security for Windows XP, Red Hat Linux coming. Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will support new CPU-based security protections designed to stop incoming malicious executable code from being triggered. This is by far the best news to come along for WinXP and Intel CPUs. Hopefully this can reach our doorsteps before the end of this year. My hope is it isn't hobbled some way on X86 and WinXP. It will be interesting to see how many SPAM relays are able to be created on these new machines running SP2 and the NX capable Intel chips. Hopefully it will be a reduction of 100% and the spam engines will slow down somewhat. 7:08:24 PM    comment []