is there a best anti-viral program for Revolution?

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Thu May 26 23:44:40 EDT 2005


On 5/26/05 10:37 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> 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....

Ain't that the truth! :-)


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com




More information about the use-livecode mailing list