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Re: Qestion about Bash Fork Resource Temporily Unavailable for NS2.28 and NS2.27
- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:00:42 -0700
- Subject: Re: Qestion about Bash Fork Resource Temporily Unavailable for NS2.28 and NS2.27
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On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:56:19PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:29:31PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:27:15AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
> >> I said "virus program". That would be something like
> >> Norton AV, McAfee VirusScan, etc.
> >
> >Hmm, is there any way cygcheck could report on intrusive software like
> >virus scanners and firewalls? Though my knowlege on the subject is
> >close to nil I think the latter may be doable with WSCEnumProtocols.
>
> You may be onto something here.
>
> We could even run cygcheck as a background process looking for the
> installation of virus scanners and popping up warnings when a virus
> scanner was introduced. If someone was interested, we could maintain
> an active database of virus scanners which would be updated over the
> internet.
>
> 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".
>
> This could be big.
LOL. Glad you liked the idea.