| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 4 Apr 2001 at 21:30:36 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcements - any questions? |
Hi Everybody,
> On 04-Apr-01, Anthony W. Prime wrote:
>
>> A national conference was planned to really get things moving, but
>> an, urm "major software supplier" objected in quite a menacing way
>> which resulted in it`s cancellation :(
>
> Interesting. How can we stop these thugs? I wish I knew.
>
> I suppose one step would be for somebody well-informed about this
> area of education to write some programs in Java, which would run on
> the AmigaDE or on Linux. (And on W******)
Java is sandboxed (well, when you run it from the internet it is). It
has no access to the machines OS or diskspace, so you can't write
viruses in Java unless someone was running a 100% Java OS, or it was
a running on a rather insecure virtual machine.
As for the AmigaDE, presumably there'll be anti-virus software written
for it, and prehaps some important system files could be locked by
the OS to prevent viruses writing to them
See ya :)
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