linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/8] SLIM: documentation

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Date:	Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:15:37 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Crispin Cowan <crispin@...ell.com>
Cc:	David Safford <safford@...son.ibm.com>,
	Serge E Hallyn <sergeh@...ibm.com>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>,
	David Safford <safford@...ibm.com>, kjhall@...ibm.com,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LSM ML <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-security-module-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 8/8] SLIM: documentation

On Wed 2006-08-30 16:11:42, Crispin Cowan wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> >> The Windows problem is foolish users who download something shiny, such
> >> as enhanced emoticons or a keen password caching mechanism (e.g. Gator)
> >> or games (as in David's example) which turns out to be spyware. Under
> >> David's demo, you can download and run the spyware, but it doesn't get
> >> access to the critical system files that make spyware so difficult to
> >> remove.
> >>     
> > Well, it gets access to my browser, which contains most of the stuff
> > spyware is interested in, anyway.
> >   
> It gets access to the data, but doesn't get to insert itself into
> important system files. An important attribute of spyware is that it is
> hard to remove, and this makes the "hard to remove" property much harder
> to achieve.

As I wrote in my previous email, yes, it makes it easier to remove.

Thinking about it, it may also make it hard to survive login/logout;
which is actually good point.
								Pavel
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