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Red Hat and MS bolster chip security feature
Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:13 ESTMicrosoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the next version of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 3 will support new CPU-based security protections designed to stop incoming malicious executable code from being triggered. The improved security feature has been included in 64-bit CPUs from Advanced Micro Devices since last year, but operating system makers have not yet built support for the technology into their code, said Jeff Lowe, desktop marketing manager at AMD. That will change when Windows XP SP2 is released later this year and when Red Hat's new enterprise Linux OS ships in August.
AMD calls its version of the new technology Enhanced Virus Protection. It was created by making changes to the silicon architecture in the processors that alter how code is permitted to enter and exit system memory,. As a result, malicious code that acts in nonapproved ways can be stopped at the gate.
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