Re: virus code is never executed - virus or not?]]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:36:17PM +0000, Fridrik Skulason wrote:
> You are forgetting the problems of ignorance and gullibility.
> 
> As long as people are willing to execute an attachment they receive in their
> mail or a program they download from a website, an integrity checker is not 
> going to help one bit if they just say "yes, it is OK to run this program".

It is not possible with current systems but why should a user be allowed to
execute an unknown piece of code ?
I'm speaking about corporate environments not home users, of course.

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Michel Messerschmidt      9messers-jNDFPZUTrfQBEfOqpokbeYV0Y/[email protected]
antiVirusTestCenter, Computer Science, University of Hamburg


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