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Re: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior
From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak () argo troja mff cuni cz>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:43:28 +0100 (MET)
On 17 Dec 2003, Julian Ashton wrote:
Good question, I have been working on plugin systems suchs as giFT and Windows Media for quite a while and while they can do some neat things, this kind of behavoir cannot happen because of the way they were architechted. When I think of "plugins" I think of 1. An sdk. 2. Methods that you create that the "client" listens for. 3. All code in the plugin is sent to the "client" not the OS level. 4. Mainly COM (this plugin uses full use of C++/MFC in a DLL)
Excuse me...how do giFT or Windows Media prevent their plugins from accessing the OS interface directly and doing whatever they (the plugins) want to do? Do they run the plugins in a virtual machine? --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
Current thread:
- Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Julian Ashton (Dec 17)
- Re: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Eric Anderson (Dec 17)
- Re: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Pavel Kankovsky (Dec 18)
- RE: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior ashton (Dec 18)
- RE: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Max (Dec 18)
- RE: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior ashton (Dec 19)
- RE: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior ashton (Dec 18)
- Re: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Eric "MightyE" Stevens (Dec 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Julian Ashton (Dec 18)
- Re: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Alexander Demenshin (Dec 18)
- RE: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Aaron_Yemm (Dec 18)
- RE: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior ashton (Dec 18)
- Re: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior nagual (Dec 19)
- RE: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Andre Lorbach (Dec 19)