That missing safeguard matters: All Apple products use DataExecutionPrevention, or DEP, a feature that prevents malicious code from running its own commands.
The first is known as dataexecutionprevention, or DEP, a measure designed to prevent hackers from hijacking programs by sneaking their own commands into what is meant to be harmless content like pictures or text.
Microsoft added in a follow-up blog post that IE 8 users are protected by default from the attack by DataExecutionPrevention, a safeguard designed to prevent content data from being misinterpreted by a program as executable commands.