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From: Baron on 19 Feb 2010 15:32 Dave Krebes Inscribed thus: > What is a "security fix?" > > Here is my guess: > > The present anti-virus strategy is a reduced dependence on vaccines > like Norton Anti-Virus and more on carefully written software so that > the virus can't get a hook on it. > > To illustrate: The most common software bug is the "infinite loop". > Virus-proof software has no infinite loops, and no input, no matter > how maliciously created, can set one up. > > Closing up these infinite loops is called a "security fix"; this is > the primary reason we must keep updating our web browsers, OS's, etc. > > Am I right? I doubt it ! -- Best Regards: Baron.
From: Andreas Marschke on 21 Feb 2010 10:25
Dave Krebes wrote: > What is a "security fix?" > > Here is my guess: > > The present anti-virus strategy is a reduced dependence on vaccines like > Norton Anti-Virus and more on carefully written software so that the virus > can't get a hook on it. > > To illustrate: The most common software bug is the "infinite loop". > Virus-proof software has no infinite loops, and no input, no matter how > maliciously created, can set one up. > > Closing up these infinite loops is called a "security fix"; this is the > primary reason we must keep updating our web browsers, OS's, etc. > > Am I right? You are trmendously wrong. The infinite loop might be an exploitable trouble making hazardous thing in an application. But everything else than a shot disturbance cant come from this. What is much more important to "security fix" are privilege escallations which enables malicious code to be run as a possibly higher privileged(aka Admin/you/other user) user account and thus bring a system as a hole or parts of it to its needs. And now move on windows monkey! |