Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:02:26 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, "Press, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Press@ca.com>,
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       malware-list@lists.printk.net, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to alinuxinterfaceforon
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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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