Make sure you have an up to date and currently active anti-virus program installed and running. Browse to the Program Files folder then to the program folder containing the program you want to make exempt. Should a program not open or run correctly you can click the Add button to make it exempt from DEP. Next, click the Data Execution Prevention tab and choose “Turn on DEP for all programs and Services except those I select”. Go to the Control Panel, double click the System icon, click the Advanced tab, click the Settings button under Performance. Increase Data Execution Prevention Protection.
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Adobe Reader, which opens PDF files, should be updated to the latest version. Go to the Control Panel, click Add/Remove Programs and uninstall those 2 programs. If you must use IE you can mitigate the risks by uninstalling Java and Adobe Flash. Instead of IE, use a browser such as Google Chrome (preferred) or Mozilla Firefox that still receives security patches. It’s not being updated any longer and it’s also 3 versions behind Internet Explorer 11 which is currently used in Windows 8.1. Here are some items to keep in mind if you are still using XP.ġ. No one really knows why that has not happened but that doesn’t mean you can let down your guard. The idea behind this was that they would reverse engineer current Microsoft updates for Windows 7 & 8 to see if they could be applied to XP. Almost every computer guru thought the malware hackers would take advantage of this unfortunate situation to gain control of XP computers. Microsoft ended security updates for Windows XP in April of this year (2014).