On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:43:35 -0400
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

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> 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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