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SubjectRe: malware defense
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Douglas Kilpatrick <dougk@tislabs.com> said:

[...]

> Exec is fairly expensive anyway (well, exec isn't, but loading and linking
> programs is). As long as the check is reasonably quick most people won't
> notice it.

You will certainly note an (expensive!) computation of a cryprograpic hash
over _all_ the executable and the libraries it loads on startup. Today you
use demand loading, and minor pieces like glibc are already at hand...
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