On Wed, 06 May 2009 21:43:06 +0200, jdd wrote:
Jim Henderson a écrit :
needs the original md5sum, never seen that on Windows
What? Pardon me for being brusque, but that's nonsense.
we need the original sum, not the program, a checksum have to compare to an other checksum
No, we need a checksum from a known good copy of the executable. So the first time you run it (when you know it's good), you prompt and say "this program is requesting to connect to..." (for example) "Allow or Deny?". Then give the user the chance to say they allow it or deny it, and the option to save their choice. If the checksum changes, you alert the user that the checksum changed. Or the path to the executable changed. Or whatever changed that was not expected changed. But I fail to see what this has to do with Windows not having an md5sum executable (which isn't included, true, but is certainly available).
Yeah, and which is the more critical part of an OS installation, the actual OS installation, or the data that a user stores under their own username?
Reinstalling the OS takes, what, 45 minutes? Recovering lost data because of a rogue app can take much longer, especially on personal home systems because most users don't do backups of their data on their home machines. Yes, they should, but that's not really the point.
? rogue app need an admin to install
Not true. I downloaded wings3d and copied it to my ~/bin directory and can run it. No root privs needed. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org