[ros-dev] ReactOS and Viruses

[K McI]

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Rick Langschultz wrote:
| Sun will be releasing Solaris 10 shortly as a commercial product
| available for purchase. There is a new file system that is 128-bit, and
| is protected by md5 checksums, I think this is a great idea for reactos.
| I think before a program executes there should be a binary verifier that
| checks this checksum and then allows the program to run. This would help
| in deterring Windows viruses from attaching themselves to reactos
| binaries. Since ReactOS is open source it will be harder to protect a
| binary if there is an attack and a malicious user replaces a dll or an
| exe. Perhaps this can be done using a small xml file or a txt file
| called md5sums or something. Please let me know what you think.

I think Windows already does this with the "System File Checker", which
ROS may create in it's own way later on.

~          -uniQ

PS. MD5 is kindof insecure, better to use a SHA or other algorithm.

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