Open Source And Viruses
Posted Jun 10, 2004 7:58 UTC (Thu) by
nchip (guest, #13292)
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Open Source And Viruses by eru
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Open Source And Viruses
ill-conceived ease-of-use features (in particular the ease with which
attached programs can be launched in you-know-whose email clients)
I used to believe this was a major reason for virus spreading. Then I saw
the first viruses that used password protected
zip files for spreading. If you can fool users to open a zip file
with a password, you can fool an user to save an .sh attachment and open
it with /bin/bash.
To fend off viruses for good, we need strong sender authentication.
Unfortunetly I do not see a way to make using pgp both easy enough for
dummys while not compromising security.
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