Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows
Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:14:16
Message-Id:	`200803282012.42925.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows by 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@gmail.com>

1	On Friday 28 March 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
2	> IMHO, Linux and MAC are the next frontier for malware, and -SADLY-
3	> AntiMalware signature and heuristic techniques are one thing we can
4	> learn about from Windows :-(
5
6	True, but with one huge difference:
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8	If something like ActiveX were to be unleashed on Linux, it will be
9	fixed very quickly even if that requires an ABI change. We tend not to
10	pull the "backwards compatibility" card, so obvious holes from that
11	don't hang around for long
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14	Alan McKinnon
15	alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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