How to detect RAM problems to stabilize Vista

[dbarrow]

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=399

Posted by George Ou @ 2:44 pm
...But there is a valuable lesson to be learned here which is to TEST YOUR MEMORY and don't assume it's ok because you're not having any problems with it in Windows XP. ...


*Here's a whole new wrinkle with Vista that will undoubtedly drive some people crazy!

[Tortanick]

To be fair this isn't Vista's fault, its useing a valid security method, just makes it sensitive to bad ram.

That said its not the most effective defence, what happens is that an attacker has gained enough control over the program to inject his code, but with ASLR he'll just (probobly) put it some random place in the program and crash it. A real defence would stop the attacker ever injecting code.