is there a best anti-viral program for Revolution?
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu May 26 23:37:24 EDT 2005
Ken Ray wrote:
> On 5/26/05 7:16 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>
>
>>>Yes, but only once it has been *set*. If an application launches and
>>>*doesn't* set the secureMode, then opens a malicious stack that *sets* the
>>>secureMode, you won't be able to set it back until the next restart, and not
>>>knowing it has been set would cause the problems I mention above.
>>
>>Turning OFF the ability to write damaging files to the user's system
>>seems the least of our concerns. ;)
>
>
> True, but turning it ON behind an app's back so that data can no longer be
> written to disk legitimately is what I'm more concerned about...
Of course. But consider the implications: if someone is hell-bent on
causing mischief with Transcript, there are a lot worse things they
could do....
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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