subject: Data Execution Prevention And Steps To Configure It [print this page] Lack of knowledge is the cause of problems and people takes advantage of it. Do you know an original Microsoft windows operating system have self in built security feature which monitors your computer for security threats? This feature get disable when windows doesnt get updates properly. This article will help you in knowing this feature and steps to configure it.
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a security feature that helps prevent damage from viruses and other security threats by monitoring your programs to make sure they use the computer's memory safely.Harmful programs can try to strike Windows by attempting to run (also renowned as execute) code from your computer's memory booked for Windows and other authorized programs. These types of attacks can damage your programs and documents. DEP can help defend your computer by supervising your programs to make sure that they use computer memory securely. If DEP notices a program on your computer utilizing memory incorrectly, it closes the program and notifies you.
Steps to configure DEP are as follows,
Click the Start menu, right-click on My Computer and Choose Properties from the context menu.
On the System Properties window, click the Advanced tab.
Provide the administrator password or confirmation.
Click settings, under performance tab.
Click the data execution prevention tab.
Choose either Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select: or Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only to select the OptIn policy.
If you choose Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select, click Add to add the programs that you do not want to use the DEP feature.
Click OK twice.
Restart the computer for the changes to take effect.
If you want to define policy_level as AlwaysOn or AlwaysOff, you must do it directly via Boot.ini file and steps to proceed are as follows,
Log in as administrator
Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
Click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under the Startup and Recovery field.
In the System startup field, click Edit. The Boot.ini file opens in Notepad.
In Notepad, click Find on the Edit menu.
In the Find what box, type /noexecute, and then click find next.
In the Find dialog box, click Cancel.
Replace policy_level with AlwaysOn or AlwaysOff, as you may want. But make sure that you enter the text accurately. For e.g., if you want to set it as AlwaysOn, Boot.ini file switch should read as /noexecute=AlwaysOn
click Save on the File menu in notepad to save the configuration
Restart the computer for the changes to take effect.
Friends, these are the steps through which you can configure your data execution prevention application in windows xp, if you are technical enough and can understand the terms and conditions related with computer you can proceed it with yourself by following the steps and if not, you can even visit the site www.impcsupport.com, it provides online windows support, technical support, softwares, protection tool and so on.
