DEP vs Windows Firewall
-
Found this thanks to uneasysilence.com
Nowonder noone trusts Microsoft products when Microsoft don't even trust their own security:
-
We had this discussion already. No WTF since a good security program must not make any hardcoded exceptions. If MS DEP trusted all MS products by default, everyone would scream M$ CONSPIRACY SECURITY HOLE M$ SUX OMGWTFBBGONEONE - And they would be right.
-
Yeah, if DEP has kicked in then that means that the firewall WAS about to execute some data, which would have either crashed it anyway or been a MAJOR security breach.
I'd go looking for viruses/malware myself, but it's possible the firewall just has a bug (which is still not good).
-
<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>I was actually initially going under the assumption that it was a bug with windows firewall itself, I know that this is correct for DEP to end the firewall process in such a situation as it is in direct conflict with programming/security standards set by microsoft. I posted it as I still found such a pop up asmusing</FONT>
-
-
Indeed, it looks like it might be a buffer overflow exploit. Whoever saw this should be grateful Microsoft doesn't trust their own software, otherwise down in Cork they'd be known as a langer.
-
@Thief^ said:
Yeah, if DEP has kicked in then that means that the firewall WAS about to execute some data, which would have either crashed it anyway or been a MAJOR security breach.
Or it could simply be self-modifying code. It's a slightly-too-clever way to implement firewall rules, and if done without paying careful attention to code pages vs. data pages, will trigger DEP.
-
@RaspenJho said:
@PSWorx said:
OMGWTFBBGONEONE
I've seen OMGWTFBBQ before... what's the "G" stand for?
BB-GONE of course. It's a common idiom meaning that the bulletin board just broke down after getting slashdotted. Jeez, really... and you call yourself Internet experienced...
-
@PSWorx said:
@RaspenJho said:
@PSWorx said:
OMGWTFBBGONEONE
I've seen OMGWTFBBQ before... what's the "G" stand for?
BB-GONE of course. It's a common idiom meaning that the bulletin board just broke down after getting slashdotted. Jeez, really... and you call yourself Internet experienced...
I never heard this one either, sorry. Maybe it's just too new.
-
;)