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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.


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