Re: Qestion about Bash Fork Resource Temporily Unavailable for NS2.28 and NS2.27

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:00:42PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:56:19PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:29:31PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>> >On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:27:15AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>> >> I said "virus program".  That would be something like
>> >> Norton AV, McAfee VirusScan, etc.
>> >
>> >Hmm, is there any way cygcheck could report on intrusive software like
>> >virus scanners and firewalls?  Though my knowlege on the subject is
>> >close to nil I think the latter may be doable with WSCEnumProtocols.
>> 
>> You may be onto something here.
>> 
>> We could even run cygcheck as a background process looking for the
>> installation of virus scanners and popping up warnings when a virus
>> scanner was introduced.  If someone was interested, we could maintain
>> an active database of virus scanners which would be updated over the
>> internet.
>> 
>> 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".
>> 
>> This could be big.
>
>LOL.  Glad you liked the idea.

Actually, I did like the idea.  I think that having cygcheck report on virus
scanners would be a big help.

cgf