Re: [malware-list] TALPA - a threat model? well sorta.

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:16:22 -0400
Jan Harkes <jaharkes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I believe we really do need the block-on-open.  

I believe more that we need block-on-read ;-)
(on open we can start an async scan to cut latency)

read() (or mmap etc) is where the actual use/transfer of
contaminated data happens, not in the open.


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