Why would it have a negative impact on shareware/freeware?
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Tom Piwowar <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > Yes it is an "honor virus" but if you are installing software you expect > that it will be asking for your admin password. So if you install > anything where you are not sure of its origins you can get into big > trouble. > > I wonder if in the long term this has very negative impact on shareware > and freeware utilities. A lot of great midnight programmers and small > companies are going to get buried. > > >This is what is known in the UNIX world as an "honor virus". You have > >to put in place software you know to be illegitimate and give it > >administrative access to install, or do something otherwise known to > >be self destructive. > > > >If I were dumb enough to do this I could discover that shock of shock > >my enterprise heavily firewalled role restricted servers are vulnerable. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
