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To: ShadowAce

If you make the OS bullet-proof you don't need anti-virus protection in the first place...........


6 posted on 01/30/2006 11:13:18 AM PST by Red Badger (...I will bless them that bless thee and those who curse thee I will turn into Liberals..........)
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To: Red Badger

That's called OS X


7 posted on 01/30/2006 11:16:56 AM PST by Panerai
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To: Red Badger
If you make the OS bullet-proof you don't need anti-virus protection in the first place...........

Yea.

Step one. Remove 99.999% of the features of today's modern OSs.

Step two. Limit device support to a small number of devices that con be supported with simple drivers developed in house.

Step three. Do not allow any third party drivers to be loaded.

Step four. Only allow verified and tested third party software and only give that software a very limited API to interface to the OS with.

You've now got a decent starting poing for making a solid and secure OS.

Add in some rigid design procedures and outside test and verification, and if you're reasonably efficient, you'll only spend a couple thousand dollars per line of code for something arguably solid and secure.

For more information se the D.O. 178 standards for software design used in avaition system.

12 posted on 01/30/2006 11:28:47 AM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: Red Badger
If you make the OS bullet-proof you don't need anti-virus protection in the first place...........
Ain't no such thing and never will be.

33 posted on 01/30/2006 12:14:54 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: Red Badger

Simply put, there is no "bullet-proof" OS. If you think you have a bullet-proof OS then I invite you to keep on running it without any AV. All software is manmade and is therefore flawed. It is impossible to account for everything that could be attacked within a system.


39 posted on 01/30/2006 12:23:49 PM PST by RJS1950 (The rats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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