From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1238 invoked by alias); 8 Jul 2005 12:29:01 -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 966 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jul 2005 12:28:26 -0000 Received: from c-24-61-23-223.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (HELO cgf.cx) (24.61.23.223) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:28:25 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 3ACB213C12A; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 08:28:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:29:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Subject: Re: Qestion about Bash Fork Resource Temporily Unavailable for NS2.28 and NS2.27 Message-ID: <20050708122812.GD23354@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List 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> <20050708060042.GB3200@efn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050708060042.GB3200@efn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-q3/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:00:42PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >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. Actually, I did like the idea. I think that having cygcheck report on virus scanners would be a big help. cgf