Useful targets

Posted Apr 14, 2006 9:01 UTC (Fri) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Useful targets by cventers
Parent article: Anti-virus to protect against anti-virus vulnerabilities

I think the open source model works for getting bugs found and fixed fast.

That's one thing that the bugs are getting fixed. It's a completely different story whether the users actually install the patches.

we have technology like PaX [...] we have the UNIX security model.

Most of the spyware/adware I've seen on Windows was installed by the user himself. PaX or the UNIX security model does not defend against this kind of threat - the line of defense is that there's a lot fewer software for Linux and the installation of non-trusted software is lot more complicated (wget, untar, configure, make) that running an .exe. I'm afraid part of reaching "world dominitation" on the desktop is to remove these defenses.

Bye,NAR