Re: [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linux interface for on access scanning

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To: Cliffe <cliffe@...>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@...>, Eric Paris <eparis@...>, <malware-list@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-security-module@...>
Date: Monday, August 4, 2008 - 11:46 pm

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:01:59AM +0800, Cliffe wrote:

Could it really?  How would such an interface work?

Remember, the big issue here isn't the kernel "hooks", but the fact that
a lot of people are yet to be convinced that something like this needs
to be within the kernel itself.

Perhaps we should dig up the proposals for the filesystem-notify type
patches, something like that might be all the majority of the virus
people need, as they want to just scan things for Windows viruses, not
Linux ones, and to do so "lazily" might be sufficient.

thanks,

greg k-h
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Re: [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linux interface for on acce..., Greg KH, (Mon Aug 4, 11:46 pm)
Sidebar to [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linux..., David Collier-Brown, (Wed Aug 6, 7:40 am)
Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linuxinterfa..., David Collier-Brown, (Mon Aug 11, 12:11 pm)
Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linuxinterfa..., Arjan van de Ven, (Wed Aug 13, 10:28 am)
Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linux interf..., David Collier-Brown, (Wed Aug 6, 7:31 am)