> Jargon File in all its glory. And if you still think you could look for
> patterns, how about executable code that self-modifies in random ways
> but when executed as a whole actually has the functionality of fetchmail
> embedded within it? How would you guard against that?

Thats a problem for whoever writes the ESR detection tool and to what
level it works. The question for the kernel is how do we provide a
mechanism to allow (to some extent at least) this kind of tool to run.

Alan
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