"Enhanced Virus Protection"

brycematheson712

brycematheson712

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Whenever I look at purchasing a new CPU, it generally mentions something about "Enhanced Virus Protection". Is that just a marketing gimick, or does it really help?

How can it do that though? Viruses generally only infect the software, don't they? Can someone explain this to me? Thanks!
 
Is a scam, gimick,etc whatever you want to call it there isn't such thing as a cpu with enhanced virus protection lol
 
brycematheson712 said:
Here's a link to one:
Scroll down the pretty close to the bottom. (I'm not actually thinking about purchasing this CPU)
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2207290
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Mega fake and ubber overpriced, watch the newegg one is the same model and everything

Tigerdirect
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2207290

Newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103861
 
Apparently it's not "fake" but I certinaly wouldn't base a purchase on it. And as others said, it's way too expensive...

Often abbreviated as EVP, Enhanced Virus Protection is a proprietary technology used by AMD which attempts to prevent malicious computer code from being executed without the user's knowledge or permission.

EVP is a feature of CPUs, and it allows the operating system to designate certain areas of RAM as readable and writable, but not executable. By preventing the computer from executing code in areas that were not intended to contain executable CPU instructions, many buffer overflow attacks may be prevented.
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What is advertised on those processors is usually protection by the CPU so that data cannot be written to the Master Boot Record or boot sector, so that a virus can't screw up your PC that way.
 
Enhanced Virus Protection in combination with Windows® XP SP2 sets portions of system memory aside as “data only” meaning that any code resident in these areas may not be executed, only read from or written to.
 
Styrak said:
What is advertised on those processors is usually protection by the CPU so that data cannot be written to the Master Boot Record or boot sector, so that a virus can't screw up your PC that way.
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I thought this was part of the mainboard BIOS, and not the proc itself?
 
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