From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 13:35:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.chi.ameritech.net (mpdr0.chicago.il.ameritech.net [206.141.239.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 256FB37B97C for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 13:35:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adavis@ubasics.com) Received: from ubasics.com ([209.18.29.37]) by mailhost.chi.ameritech.net (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <20000510203514.LKYY4473.mailhost.chi.ameritech.net@ubasics.com> for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 15:35:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3919CC26.B7BDBCDB@ubasics.com> Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 16:52:54 -0400 From: "M. Adam Davis" Organization: Micro Basics X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: How Microsoft ensures virus-free software References: <20000511002705.A1165@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000510125432.I28180@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It looks as though what they're doing is sending the master to the duplication machines, creating a duplicate, then scanning the created duplicate for virii. If there are none, then it is highly unlikely that durng the duplication process (which can take days/weeks/etc) the master files will be corrupted with a virus. -Adam Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > 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* > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message