Have you ever experienced application crashes on your Windows PC? Hours of work lost to nirvana with unsaved data files. This in the happiest cases. The worse scenarios involving stealth bugs parasiting your PC's memory with the single goal to steal your secrets,  to copy out what you type as you type, or just to turn your computer into a zombie networked to online holdups.  Here's an interesting solution addressing the issue right to its inner core, it's suggestively called DieHard Software:

 AMHERST, Mass. – Today’s computers have more than 2,000 times as much memory as the machines of yesteryear, yet programmers are still writing code as if memory is in short supply. Not only does this make programs crash annoyingly, but it also can make users vulnerable to hacker attacks, says computer scientist Emery Berger from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
 
 With such problems in mind, Berger created a new program that prevents crashing and makes users safer, he says. Dubbed DieHard, there are versions for programs that run in Windows or Linux. DieHard is available free for non-commercial users at www.diehard-software.org .
 
 Berger developed DieHard together with Microsoft researcher Ben Zorn. Berger has received a $30,000 grant from Microsoft, a $30,000 grant from Intel, and a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his work on DieHard.
 
 Almost everything done on a computer uses some amount of memory—each... (more)