is there a best anti-viral program for Revolution?

[Ken Ray]

On 5/26/05 3:42 PM, "Robert Brenstein" <rjb at robelko.com> wrote:

>> On 5/26/05 12:22 PM, "MisterX" <b.xavier at internet.lu> wrote:
>> 
>>>  Better question:
>>>  How can we prevent "any script" from setting this secure mode hell to true?
>> 
>> Xavier has a point... a malicious stack could theoretically switch a stack
>> that was not in secureMode into secureMode without telling anyone; the next
>> time the application legitimately tries to write files, etc. it would
>> prevent them from doing so - all that data entry would disappear.
>> 
> 
> Didn't Jacque say that you have to actually relaunch in order to
> activate the secureMode change? That should prevent the thing you
> worry about.

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.


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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