is there a best anti-viral program for Revolution?

[Richard Gaskin]

Gordon Webster wrote:
> Scanning the Transcript in stacks would not be useful
> I feel, since it's true purpose could be so easily
> obfuscated as Dar rightly points out. Also, encrypted
> stacks would be a major headache.
> 
> I think that the 'sandbox' has to be at the bytecode
> level to be truly effective and that means it would
> probably be best to have this feature built into the
> runtime engine.
> 
> I would imagine that this could work in much the same
> way as the Java security layer that is the default
> when running applets. Users would have the option to
> run the stack in 'safe' mode which warns them what the
> stack wants to do, instead of doing it.
> 
> The Java folk have 'been there, done that' so perhaps
> the rev community could borrow from their experience
> rather than reinventing the wheel.

We already have a secureMode property, and a spec has been provided for 
a requested secureFolder property to help secureMode be useful.

Looking at RevOnline it appears that the concept of "trusted" sites has 
already been implemented -- is it not documented?

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