Hi bob3160 & FwF,
Let us turn to the question at hand, and let us get two things clear here. To use DEP means the HARDWARE variety of DEP (if your computer has it on board), the software DEP helps but is under attack, has some holes, and there is a patch tool for it written by a Russian researchers that should be installed (he has not heard from MS since he published.
People have short term memory. Remember that some coder said that if the source code of MS was revealed there would be holes found up as big you would not sleep nicely for some days to come. This remark sparked by comments made by Microsoft VP Jim Allchin who stated, under oath, that there were flaws in Windows so great that they would threaten national security if the Windows source code were to be disclosed. He mentioned Message Queueing, and immediately regretted it, because as until today there is no cure for the ShatterAttack:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatter_attackMac OS advertises this now as one of the 5 major flaws in the
design of Windows, that was originally designed to be a stand-alone machine, never to go out on the Internet in the first place etc. etc. etc.
polonus