From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JfJ5j-00087A-RQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:14:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8450DE0659; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:14:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 437B6E0659 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:14:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so232181nfh.26 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:14:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=SckqKMYfU85jUbseSolovyGEHxzQ3bul0tZ2eQIhpEE=; b=rGuUtMM9BwjKsOiQWWwvqhj7X02NexhMT30nIWI8lCzUhOT6FYt9vOwVj84ERuMiOMvdWXM0zIf18DReJ91k2zn/GqQZU0Tolm4o1j1jiDP0wXds33WgaaEHw8LSTpJh/zN2Bz0LT58rHYAj7tUiMuYof6V6blir05L7yDpZNwo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=hoM43/mXDPqFUzs9ywivIjDIkTLhFF7Ysx/arXLU9gjdvwRk10Qa5MzbQkb4SqG3HmkaQIoD0RP18TG76csXt7teWpghk/gPvNNm5pNZ5ccAvF6PSUuoMI+uwOq3CLNoYBtff+NCu6gEQEQEvRwr58coSL3Yfwc2Sd1231qR5bI= Received: by 10.78.203.20 with SMTP id a20mr2639946hug.21.1206728052261; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.195.237]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm3272616huc.12.2008.03.28.11.14.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:14:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:12:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <8978E31831121041B2E97EBC0BF8503306AAD3B5@EXVS01.hostedexchange.com> <1206641274.30987.110.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> <47EC49AC.40003@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47EC49AC.40003@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803282012.42925.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 33295e50-9384-4697-9974-b1fcbb04aa1d X-Archives-Hash: 194fffdd9a3b328b53ef39d030173f5d On Friday 28 March 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > IMHO, Linux and MAC are the next frontier for malware, and -SADLY- > AntiMalware signature and heuristic techniques are one thing we can > learn about from Windows :-( True, but with one *huge* difference: If something like ActiveX were to be unleashed on Linux, it will be fixed very quickly even if that requires an ABI change. We tend not to pull the "backwards compatibility" card, so obvious holes from that don't hang around for long -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list