{"id":22,"date":"2003-10-03T19:20:19","date_gmt":"2003-10-03T18:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=22"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:34:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:34:31","slug":"overflow_guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2003\/10\/03\/overflow_guard.php","title":{"rendered":"Overflow Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed via Bugtraq and NT Bugtraq release from Data Security Software<\/a> of a free Windows NT4\/2000\/XP\/2003 Stack Guard<\/a> for personal use, it essentially makes the stack on various services non-executable and thereby prevents from unknown vulnerabilities taking you out especially in IE and Outlook.<\/p>\n

\nOverflowGuard 1.0 is now released. Buffer overflows are an easy way for hackers to gain access into a system. Traditionally the only way to protect your Windows system against buffer overflows was to install a patch from the vendor after the vulnerability was known. This left a period of time when hackers could break into your system regardless of how quickly you installed vendor patches. OverflowGuard has changed this. It protects almost every service on a Windows NT 4 \/ 2000 \/ XP \/ 2003 computer against buffer overflow exploit attempts. In the Unix world buffer overflow protection programs have existed for years. Unfortunately, due to the complexities of implementing such a program in Windows, no reliable buffer overflow protection has been available until now.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This sounds great, the download link is a simple no-frills download without any personal details being collected, kudos to them for that – all you have to do is agree to some fairly generic License Agreement.
\nUPDATE: They have now removed the Free one from their site and instead offers a 30 day edition. Silly Buggers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed via Bugtraq and NT Bugtraq release from Data Security Software of a free Windows NT4\/2000\/XP\/2003 Stack Guard for personal use, it essentially makes the stack on various services non-executable and thereby prevents from unknown vulnerabilities taking you out especially in IE and Outlook. OverflowGuard 1.0 is now released. Buffer overflows are an easy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}