Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 16:52:54 -0400 From: "M. Adam Davis" <adavis@ubasics.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How Microsoft ensures virus-free software Message-ID: <3919CC26.B7BDBCDB@ubasics.com> References: <20000511002705.A1165@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000510125432.I28180@fw.wintelcom.net>
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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
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