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Re: Qestion about Bash Fork Resource Temporily Unavailable for NS2.28 and NS2.27
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:12:44 -0700
- Subject: Re: Qestion about Bash Fork Resource Temporily Unavailable for NS2.28 and NS2.27
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> A future project might entail linking cygcheck to email clients, scanning
> them for virus scanner attachments and "quarantining" them. We could
> also add a "virus scanner" hook for IE which would detect attempts by
> users to download rogue virus scanners to their systems.
>
> If it helps, I could add a cygwin-virus-scanner mailing list devoted to
> "first alert" sightings of virus scanners "in the wild".
That sounds like a plan. Although I suspect that in six months Symantec
or Norton would release a "virus scanner scanner" so bloated with cheesy
eye candy and system destabilizing effects that it would set us all back
decades.
Brian