Re: Qestion about Bash Fork Resource Temporily Unavailable for NS2.28 and NS2.27

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:56:19PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:29:31PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:27:15AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
> >> I said "virus program".  That would be something like
> >> Norton AV, McAfee VirusScan, etc.
> >
> >Hmm, is there any way cygcheck could report on intrusive software like
> >virus scanners and firewalls?  Though my knowlege on the subject is
> >close to nil I think the latter may be doable with WSCEnumProtocols.
> 
> You may be onto something here.
> 
> We could even run cygcheck as a background process looking for the
> installation of virus scanners and popping up warnings when a virus
> scanner was introduced.  If someone was interested, we could maintain
> an active database of virus scanners which would be updated over the
> internet.
> 
> A future project might entail linking cygcheck to email clients, scanning
> them for virus scanner attachments and "quarantining" them.  We could
> also add a "virus scanner" hook for IE which would detect attempts by
> users to download rogue virus scanners to their systems.
> 
> If it helps, I could add a cygwin-virus-scanner mailing list devoted to
> "first alert" sightings of virus scanners "in the wild".
> 
> This could be big.

LOL.  Glad you liked the idea.