From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,452860c2cffef8e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-27 23:03:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: "Bobby D. Bryant" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Virus Resistive Software Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:56:22 -0600 Organization: dis- Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-102-39.ots.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu 1062050241 2499 128.83.176.39 (28 Aug 2003 05:57:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:57:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.14.0 (I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41911 Date: 2003-08-27T23:56:22-06:00 List-Id: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 20:34:55 -0700, Robert C. Leif wrote: > It appears from the latest news reports, that present commercial > software, particularly email programs, is susceptible to attack by > viruses. A question with a very big payoff is could software written in > Ada and perhaps in part in XML be made significantly more virus > resistant than present commercial software, such as MicrosoftR OutlookR? > For instance, would the strong type checking of both Ada and XML schema > help. As a point of information, it is possible to create XML schemas > that are semantically very similar to Ada type and object declarations. > Would the use of an Ada protected type with a single entry for reading > addresses in a user's phone book be of any help? One of the most prevalent problems is with the software's design rather than with its implementation. I.e., if your e-mail client will execute attachments at the click of a cl00bie, there isn't going to be any salvation found in an Ada/XML implementation. > xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" > xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" > xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> > > > > Speaking of bad software design, you posted 810 lines to convey 13 lines of content. You might want to consider switching to a Usenet-friendly newsreader. -- Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas