Re: Virus/adware/spyware -- is there all-in-one protection in one program?

From: Alun Jones [MSFT] (alunj_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:53:42 -0700

"Lionel Fourquaux" <use.reply.to@no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:#e5TNcdWEHA.2844@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Assume some kind of buffer overflow in an e-mail client. It's possible
> that it could be exploited to inject the viral code in the process
> before it is saved to a file. In this case, a file access scanner
> wouldn't see anything, and the virus would be free to replicate for as
> long as the e-mail client is running.

Yeah, but that would need to be put in place (as a proxy) between the email
client and the email server, rather than be something that the email client
could call.

Alun.
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