Slackware users seem to have this problem addressed long time ago:
"There's no need for normal files to be executable (and it can
indeed be a security risk (*)), so we use fmask
to turn off those permissions."
and proposed solutions, depending on the case, in
http://slackwiki.org/Windows_Partitions
(*) And, in the other hand, the annoyances described in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/78505/comments/8
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/78505/comments/14
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/78505/comments/17
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/78505/comments/18
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NTFS and FAT partitions mounted with executable bits create lots of annoyance
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/78505
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