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sorry but what is NX? i saw "no execute memory protection" but that means nothing to me...
 
Chaos_Being said:
Neato! Except that I make a lot of my income as a PC tech/repair guy removing all of those viruses from customers' computers every day :p
Don't worry about it. NX, or XD as Intel calls it primarily protects against worms only. Most viruses, trojans and spyware in general simply are unaffected by NX since they don't use buffer overruns to do their thing.
 
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