Qestion about Bash Fork Resource Temporily Unavailable for NS2.28 and NS2.27

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Fri Jul 8 04:57:00 GMT 2005


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> A future project might entail linking cygcheck to email clients, scanning
> them for virus scanner attachments and "quarantining" them.  We could
> also add a "virus scanner" hook for IE which would detect attempts by
> users to download rogue virus scanners to their systems.
> 
> If it helps, I could add a cygwin-virus-scanner mailing list devoted to
> "first alert" sightings of virus scanners "in the wild".

That sounds like a plan.  Although I suspect that in six months Symantec
or Norton would release a "virus scanner scanner" so bloated with cheesy
eye candy and system destabilizing effects that it would set us all back
decades.

Brian



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