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Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Dec 17 2003 01:59AM
Julian Ashton (ashton joltmedia com) (3 replies)

Re: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Dec 19 2003 06:39PM
Eric \MightyE\ Stevens (trash mightye org)

Re: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Dec 17 2003 11:43PM
Pavel Kankovsky (peak argo troja mff cuni cz) (1 replies)

On 17 Dec 2003, Julian Ashton wrote:

> Good question, I have been working on plugin systems suchs as giFT and
> Windows Media for quite a while and while they can do some neat
> things, this kind of behavoir cannot happen because of the way they
> were architechted. When I think of "plugins" I think of 1. An sdk. 2.
> Methods that you create that the "client" listens for. 3. All code in
> the plugin is sent to the "client" not the OS level. 4. Mainly COM
> (this plugin uses full use of C++/MFC in a DLL)

Excuse me...how do giFT or Windows Media prevent their plugins from
accessing the OS interface directly and doing whatever they (the plugins)
want to do? Do they run the plugins in a virtual machine?

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."

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RE: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Dec 18 2003 12:03PM
ashton (ashton joltmedia com) (1 replies)

RE: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Dec 18 2003 08:32PM
Max (max maxandcarrie com) (1 replies)

RE: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Dec 19 2003 03:53AM
ashton (ashton joltmedia com)

Re: Edonkey/Overnet Plugins capable of Virus/Worm behavior Dec 17 2003 10:54PM
Eric Anderson (anderson cs uoregon edu)