On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 04:18:52PM -0600,
"John W. Lemons III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I agree with this as well, but certainly you can see that there is some
> level
> of benefit from a two (or three) tier approach to virus
> detection/prevention.
How does doing virus checking twice help? It should be done once when it
is first loaded on to the client machine.
> It seems to me that one of the major solutions to this problem would be real
> OS level security on more machines (ie not windows). The big problem there
> is cost, training, availability of software, politics, user acceptance, etc
> etc ad nauseum.
No the problem is active documents. These can cause problems under any
moderately useful OS. When people get files that act as though they are
read only, it is a good idea to make sure that they really are read only
so that it isn't easy to fool people.
Windoze doesn't have a monopoly on active document formats. Latex/Tex
and Postscript (though unix postscript readers generally don't allow
the dangerous functions to work) both allow for active documents that
can cause problems.
Their idea of running files that are clearly labelled as programs
from web pages and email messages without really making sure the user
understands the risk, is something I do think they have a monopoly on.
