From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 10 12:40:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 491D737B95E for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 12:40:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 1305 invoked from network); 10 May 2000 19:40:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory6.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.126) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 10 May 2000 19:40:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 14957 invoked by uid 211); 10 May 2000 19:40:20 -0000 Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 01:10:20 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How Microsoft ensures virus-free software Message-ID: <20000511011020.B14634@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000511002705.A1165@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000510125432.I28180@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000510125432.I28180@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 12:54:33PM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.15pre4 alpha X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alfred Perlstein said on May 10, 2000 at 12:54:33: > * Rahul Siddharthan [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