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[jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Henderson a écrit :

> True, which is why she also uses up-to-date virus protection as well.

if so, no firewall needed

> > *this* is the problem: how can one know an application is clean?
>
> Such a firewall application could use checksums on the application as a 
> way of monitoring if the application that was approved has been modified 
> in some way.  I think (but don't know for sure) that this is what 
> ZoneAlarm does.

needs the original md5sum, never seen that on Windows

See. The Linux way of life is to go root when one needs to do
something like protecting the computer. You get a chance to remember
root is God :-)

The Vista way of life is to ask at every moment "may I do", to let
small windows on the desktop saying "I blocked this" when you know
this should not be blocked... and I only sumarize.

Why this? because most Windows 2000 and many XP users always run root
accounts (or make new accounts root), and this because many old (and
new?) applications can't run without writing in the programm install
folder

so windows users used to be root. On Vista, you can't be root (or
nearly)!! but you can make root decision all the time, even in a
hurry, when you have no time to think (or are too tired to do)

I pray each day for the Kde4 devs not doing same thing :-(((

apparmor, in the contrary, seems to do the same job but never ask...

jdd


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