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From: FromTheRafters on 17 Mar 2010 22:02
"Karthik Balaguru" <karthikbalaguru79(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Mar 17, 6:46 am, "FromTheRafters" <erra...(a)nomail.afraid.org>
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> ***
> It might be worth pondering that viruses, in particular, don't
> generally
> need to exploit software flaws. REMUS seems to be a good enhancement
> for
> the OS, but AV has (or had) a different goal.
> ***

Interesting to know that generally viruses do not exploit this flaw.

***
Or rather, that they don't *need* to exploit *any* flaw. REMUS helps
protect the OS from privilege escalation attacks against software flaws.
***


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