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Re: standards status in the industry - opinion?
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 00:29:25 +0000 (GMT)
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Drsolly:On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Florian Weimer wrote:How many anti-virus programs have got an ^MZ checkbox which is enabled by default?What do you mean by an "MZ checkbox"? Why would anyone *not* scan executable files? So why would you want to give people an option to disable scanning those files?Activating the checkbox would flag anything that is received over the network, looks like an executable, and lacks a proper AuthentiCode signature as malware. (IIRC, Microsoft has promised to implement something similar, but I haven't seen any warnings on Windows XP SP2 yet.) Apart from PGP users, who sends .EXE files by email?
Ah, I see what you mean, I thought you were talking about what to scan. Yes, I've been advocating this (and I'm not sure that I'd trust Authenticode) for a while. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion?, (continued)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Florian Weimer (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Matthew Murphy (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Gadi Evron (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Florian Weimer (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Gadi Evron (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Drsolly (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Matthew Murphy (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Gadi Evron (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Florian Weimer (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Drsolly (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Florian Weimer (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Drsolly (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Drsolly (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Nick FitzGerald (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Blue Boar (Jan 07)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Nick FitzGerald (Jan 08)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Blue Boar (Jan 08)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Drsolly (Jan 08)
- Re: standards status in the industry - opinion? Blue Boar (Jan 08)
- RE: standards status in the industry - opinion? Stephen Villano (Jan 08)
- RE: standards status in the industry - opinion? Drsolly (Jan 08)
- RE: standards status in the industry - opinion? Nick FitzGerald (Jan 08)