Re: standards status in the industry - opinion?

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* 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?
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