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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Transmeta to add antivirus feature to chips

Anti-virus stuff gets into processors now!



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NGSCB is a bigger initiative to have the PC hardware have security features - secure from power-on. The Transmeta (and I think AMD) feature is to enable no-execute memory regions which the compilers will support. So, even on an overflow, the CPU won't execute instructions in the NX region. At least this is what I understood of it. :)

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