tech-security: Re: Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP) and NetBSD?

Subject: Re: Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP) and NetBSD?
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Koen Victor <koen.victor@student.kuleuven.ac.be>
List: tech-security
Date: 07/30/2005 17:35:42

"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> What is this Enhanced Virus Protection for BSD Unix?
> Do we support this AMD feature? 

AMD Enhanced Virus Protection is a marketing friendly description of 
the non-executable bit NX. It's supported since NetBSD 2.0 and can be 
altered via the PROT_EXEC permission of mmap.

greetings,
Koen Victor