On Friday 11 July 2008 18:57:24 J Sloan wrote:
Jim Henderson wrote:
Then again, that's your choice as a system user. I personally think waiting until the first major attack to go "oh, wow, we need an AV solution *now*" is the wrong time to start developing a solution or looking at the options. I really don't understand what's so wrong about being proactive.
I don't know that I'd classify mimicking failed strategies from the microsoft world as being proactive. If a problem of the type that you fear arises, or seems likely to arise, it should be solved using strategies and algorithms developed according to *nix principles IMHO.
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Joe
As an aside, Dr. Crispin Cowan, one of the leading developers (if not THE leading developer) of AppArmor, is now working in the Core OS Security team at Microsoft. A very clever guy, who I admire very much. Novell (and Linux in general) lost a very valuable advocate there, but maybe the next version of Windows will have a proper security model, not the current nagware that's been bolted onto Vista. We can only hope. Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org