Re: Texas Bank Dumps Antivirus for Whitelisting

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:47:42 +0100
From:                   David Harley <david.a.harley () gmail com>

> Change detector/integrity checker. Whatever happened to all those? ;-)

Oh, my word, yes, Inegrity Master and all its ilk.  (And, of course, Gene Kim will 
be highly offended if I don't mention Tripwire, although it came later.)  However, 
an awful lot of them simply checksummed the existing proggies, and didn't care if 
you added anything.  (I remember my shock at reviewing the first AV that handled 
things that way ...)

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