Re: [ros-dev] Security Suite

[David Johnson]

I think that is great.

I too have an idea.

How about a spell checker that intagrates into all running apps.
i.e. If I install a database I would like to spell check the data even if
the app does not have this feiture. The OS should have it. SkyOS has this
feiture.

On 11/15/05, David Hinz <post.center(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>  As recently the discussion about a firewall and a virus-scanner came up
>  again, I thought of a new thing, that is a bit different than the
>  already known things.
>
>  My idea is not to use a firewall and a virus-scanner, I want to create a
>  new service, that may be configured by a gui, a console app or by other
>  apps, that might use some of its features.
>  This service should do the following things:
>
>  - Having a look at the network traffic, which includes the following:
>  - Controlling, which application may use the network connections
>  - Controlling, how many traffic they cause, which could warn the
>  user about suspicious actions
>  - Watching the running processes for unusual events
>  - Checking every file that is read or written for viruses
>  - Scanning the http-traffic for ads and viruses
>
>  But the most important thing for me is that if this service is shutdown
>  without the user agreeing to that, which may be checked by ntoskrnl, the
>  user should be informed about it and nearly all network traffic should
>  be blocked.
>  Then the network-card should be deactivated, all userprocesses should be
>  paused and all drives should be checked for viruses.
>
>  I think this is hard, but it will make it much harder for worms to
>  spread, as they don't have the chance to deactivate our securitysuite
>  and so they will be detected within two days and if they try to shutdown
>  the securitysuite they have no chance to spread.
>  That would be more secure than any other existing OS.
>
>  This are just a few thoughts, feel free to change it the way you like it.
>
>  Greets,
>
>  David Hinz
>
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