Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 01:10:20 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How Microsoft ensures virus-free software Message-ID: <20000511011020.B14634@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000510125432.I28180@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 12:54:33PM -0700 References: <20000511002705.A1165@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000510125432.I28180@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein said on May 10, 2000 at 12:54:33: > * Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> [000510 12:32] wrote: > > Saw this link in an article on the ILOVEYOU virus. > > This is from Microsoft's own webpage on how they ensure > > virus-free software on their shipping CD's. > > > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q80/5/20.ASP > > > > -snip- > > > > Duplication Process > > > > Disks are duplicated on a variety of industrial strength, quality > > focused systems. Most of these systems are UNIX-based. The UNIX-based > I'm hyper-caffinated right now, but how the hell does this protect > users if the developers' boxes are infected? > > Basically Joe Random MS coder builds the final release EXE/DLLs > on his infected computer and how exactly does this intracate, > but completely useless handoff proceedure purge that virus? > > *boggles* Maybe the developers use unix too? At least for email, file sharing, communicating with the outside world, stuff like that? R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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