Rebecca commonly sees an error on her Windows system that states that a Data Execution Prevention (DEP) error has taken place. Which of the following is most likely taking place?

A. A race condition is

being exploited, and the operating system is containing the malicious process.

B. A page fault is occurring, which forces the operating system to write data from the hard drive.

C. Malware is executing in either ROM or a cache memory area.

D. Malicious cod

e is attempting to execute instruction in a non-executable memory region.