This is only a problem is the OS doesn't zero memory when a program requests it. (That's different than the app-level heap manager zeroing memory.) What happens under Windows, I believe, is that pages are automatically zeroed when requested from the OS, so no matter what was in there before, other applications can't see it. Again, this doesn't mean that blocks returned by "new" are zeroed, just that the initial heap starts out zeroed.
Garbage Collector Question
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