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Dave Krebes

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Feb 17, 2010, 4:23:43 PM2/17/10
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What is a "security fix?"

Here is my guess:

The present anti-virus strategy is a reduced dependence on vaccines like
Norton Anti-Virus and more on carefully written software so that the virus
can't get a hook on it.

To illustrate: The most common software bug is the "infinite loop".
Virus-proof software has no infinite loops, and no input, no matter how
maliciously created, can set one up.

Closing up these infinite loops is called a "security fix"; this is the
primary reason we must keep updating our web browsers, OS's, etc.

Am I right?


Ivan Marsh

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Feb 17, 2010, 4:34:50 PM2/17/10
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Dave Krebes wrote:


no.

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Jon Solberg

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Feb 17, 2010, 5:10:32 PM2/17/10
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On 2010-02-17, Dave Krebes <dkr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is a "security fix?"
>
> Here is my guess: [...]
>
> Am I right?

No. What on Earth makes you think that?

> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5843

Ah. That explains it all.

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J G Miller

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Feb 17, 2010, 5:15:19 PM2/17/10
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:23:43 +0000, Dave Krebes wrote:

> The present anti-virus strategy is a reduced dependence on vaccines like
> Norton Anti-Virus and more on carefully written software so that the
> virus can't get a hook on it.

What relevance is Norton Anti-Virus to GNU/OS Linux operating system,
the topic of this news group, and an operating system which you do
not appear to use?

> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5843

> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579

Auric__

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Feb 17, 2010, 5:44:21 PM2/17/10
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Short article:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/V/virus.html

Long article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus

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Dan C

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Feb 17, 2010, 8:42:21 PM2/17/10
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:23:43 +0000, Dave Krebes wrote:

<SNIP>

> Am I right?

No.

Bugger off, Win-droid troll boi.


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Baron

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Feb 19, 2010, 3:32:09 PM2/19/10
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I doubt it !

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Andreas Marschke

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Feb 21, 2010, 10:25:06 AM2/21/10
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Dave Krebes wrote:

You are trmendously wrong. The infinite loop might be an exploitable
trouble making hazardous thing in an application. But everything else
than a shot disturbance cant come from this.
What is much more important to "security fix" are privilege
escallations which enables malicious code to be run as a possibly
higher privileged(aka Admin/you/other user) user account and thus
bring a system as a hole or parts of it to its needs.

And now move on windows monkey!

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