Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:31:33 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate |
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Jon Masters wrote:
>You're right. What I want really is to be able to bind to a netlink >socket and get told about particular file IO operations I'm interested >in for the /whole/ of a filesystem. The same kind of thing that real >time anti-virus/anti-spam people want to do anyway. > > > Do they? I thought all this mail processing could be done in the mailserver and/or mail reader. Why detect spam by looking for generic file creation when you can trivially tap into mail as it arrives?
As for the non-existent virus problem - it is mostly prevented by users not being administrators. And you can go further with a readonly /usr and a noexec /home.
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