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SubjectRe: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to alinuxinterfaceforon access scanning
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:43:35 -0400
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> But Pavel is raising a good question. In Eric's proposed threat
> model, he claimed the only thing that he was trying to solve was
> "scanning". Just file scanning. That implies no root privileges, but
> it also implied that he wasn't worried about malware running with user
> privileges, either. Presumbly, that would be caught and stopped by
> the file scanner before the malware had a chance to run;

You bring up a very good point - malware does not need to
be stored on a filesystem in order to run or cause damage.

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