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re: Data Execution Prevention...
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 8:58 am
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Posted by David (86 messages posted)


Any ideas how I can fix it???


On Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 6:34 am, appleoddity wrote:
>


>Well, most likely a program that handles mp3s or jpegs is corrupt, or infected with
>malware.. As an mp3 and a jpeg is not executable code, it is not those files that
>are causing the error.. It is the software behind the scenes that is trying to produce
>thumbnails or something like that.
>
>You can turn DEP off in the advanced options of your system properties. I wouldn't
>recommend that though.. I think it is on by default, and I have never actually seen
>that error, so it can't be troublesome, it is probably a sign of something that you
>need to fix.
>




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re: Data Execution Prevention... (appleoddity: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 6:34 am)

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*re: Data Execution Prevention... (appleoddity: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 9:34 am)

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-Data Execution Prevention... (David: Tue, May 6, 2008, 9:46 pm)
-re: Data Execution Prevention... (appleoddity: Wed, May 7, 2008, 6:34 am)
-re: Data Execution Prevention... (David: Wed, May 7, 2008, 8:58 am)
*re: Data Execution Prevention... (appleoddity: Wed, May 7, 2008, 9:34 am)
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