From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29901 invoked by alias); 8 Jul 2005 06:00:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Received: (qmail 29817 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jul 2005 06:00:42 -0000 Received: from zipcon.net (HELO zipcon.net) (209.221.136.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with SMTP; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 06:00:42 +0000 Received: (qmail 4864 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2005 23:03:59 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO efn.org) (209.221.136.24) by mail.zipcon.net with SMTP; 7 Jul 2005 23:03:59 -0700 Received: by efn.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:00:42 -0700 Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 06:00:00 -0000 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Qestion about Bash Fork Resource Temporily Unavailable for NS2.28 and NS2.27 Message-ID: <20050708060042.GB3200@efn.org> References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050705223027.08ca8288@pop.prospeed.net> <20050706062832.63358.qmail@web30112.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <6.2.1.2.0.20050706111849.08d26298@pop.prospeed.net> <20050708032931.GA2392@efn.org> <20050708035619.GC2123@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050708035619.GC2123@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SW-Source: 2005-q3/txt/msg00022.txt.bz2 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.