Takes a long time to make his point. I think it should have been a 5 minute video. Also seems to ignore the existence of casual games and talks as if ALL games have the punitive restart problem when it really applies to specific types of games.
The format for macros and some other things is not specified (at least not enough to recreate them). The format is still not portable for advanced features. Hopefully Microsoft isn't pushing this as an "open" format, because it isn't really open if it still has blackboxes in it.
From the spec:
For VBA code, a base64-encoded version of the binary file generated by the VBA editor is held in the binData element inside the docSuppData element. The binData element has a name attribute whose value must be set to "editdata.mso". The docSuppData element is a top-level element under the wordDocument root element, and follows the styles element in a document created by Word.
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More info is available on this powerpoint from the Microsoft PDC:
http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/PDC/4118/ARC334.pp t
Some of it is about maturity. I know a number of smart young people who aren't reliable, and act as though they are in high school (showing up late, etc). It takes more than just intelligence and experience to be taken seriously; you must also act professionally.
You might be willing to do set up a server, but why do it if you don't have to? Using the Rumor technology anyone can set up AV on their network without having to worry about a centralized server, or keeping the virus signatures on that server up to date. Also, if you have hundreds or thousands of users, you are at a company which can afford to have someone taking care of a central server, not everyone can do this. Even in large companies, you don't really want to have to deploy a server at every location do you?
There are over 50 thousand viruses now and a large percentage of them are not something you can describe with just a pattern matcher because the virus is self-encrypted. Most modern virus scanners have fairly complex code to deal with decrypting a virus and then applying a pattern matcher. At least in the case of myCIO, we code updates are only 2-3 times per year, most of the time what you are getting are just virus signatures.
As for your ideas on writing viruses, everything you've mentioned has already been done before. Most AV software has some sort of CPU emulator to deal with self-encrypted code, so it doesn't really matter how much it mutates, if it can decrypt it self in the real world, we can decrypt it in the virtual world (and if it can't decrypt itself it's not going to propagate and so isn't a virus [ just a wannabe ])
Hi, I work at myCIO as the chief architect and developer of the rumor technology (despite the misquote in the eWeek article). The files shared are CAB files that have been signed with a key from myCIO. The myCIO agent will only trusts files that have been digitally signed. If it can't find anyone on the local network with a trusted file, it will go directly to the source (myCIO).
Personally I think this is more secure than something like SSL, as even if our website is compromised, the key for the CAB files is not accessible.
You don't have to patent something to protect it from being patent. All you have to do is state it publically. Then it is prior art and cannot be patented.
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Takes a long time to make his point. I think it should have been a 5 minute video. Also seems to ignore the existence of casual games and talks as if ALL games have the punitive restart problem when it really applies to specific types of games.
More info is available on this powerpoint from the Microsoft PDC:
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http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/PDC/4118/ARC334.p
After all, they just take tax money away from the government.
Some of it is about maturity. I know a number of smart young people who aren't reliable, and act as though they are in high school (showing up late, etc). It takes more than just intelligence and experience to be taken seriously; you must also act professionally.
You might be willing to do set up a server, but why do it if you don't have to? Using the Rumor technology anyone can set up AV on their network without having to worry about a centralized server, or keeping the virus signatures on that server up to date. Also, if you have hundreds or thousands of users, you are at a company which can afford to have someone taking care of a central server, not everyone can do this. Even in large companies, you don't really want to have to deploy a server at every location do you?
The nodes are semi-trusted (peer 2 peer in rumor is only done within a subnet); and the files exchanged are digitally signed.
There are over 50 thousand viruses now and a large percentage of them are not something you can describe with just a pattern matcher because the virus is self-encrypted. Most modern virus scanners have fairly complex code to deal with decrypting a virus and then applying a pattern matcher. At least in the case of myCIO, we code updates are only 2-3 times per year, most of the time what you are getting are just virus signatures.
As for your ideas on writing viruses, everything you've mentioned has already been done before. Most AV software has some sort of CPU emulator to deal with self-encrypted code, so it doesn't really matter how much it mutates, if it can decrypt it self in the real world, we can decrypt it in the virtual world (and if it can't decrypt itself it's not going to propagate and so isn't a virus [ just a wannabe ])
Hi, I work at myCIO as the chief architect and developer of the rumor technology (despite the misquote in the eWeek article). The files shared are CAB files that have been signed with a key from myCIO. The myCIO agent will only trusts files that have been digitally signed. If it can't find anyone on the local network with a trusted file, it will go directly to the source (myCIO).
Personally I think this is more secure than something like SSL, as even if our website is compromised, the key for the CAB files is not accessible.
You don't have to patent something to protect it from being patent. All you have to do is state it publically. Then it is prior art and cannot be patented.