From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C file recoginzed as image file Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:39:53 +0100 Message-ID: <45A427C9.9090702@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168386019 12075 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2007 23:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, c.a.rendle@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 10 00:40:16 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H4QZj-0004uS-C3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:40:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4QZi-0003Zw-Ee for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:40:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4QZV-0003Yw-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:40:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4QZS-0003YO-Pf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:40:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4QZS-0003YL-K2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:39:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.213] (helo=ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H4QZQ-0000Cs-Sw; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:39:57 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:64025 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H4QZO-00008X-7Q; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:39:54 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: Chris Moore In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0702-0, 2007-01-09), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1H4QZO-00008X-7Q. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1H4QZO-00008X-7Q 6d840e17cd5602eb103e8decce345166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65093 Archived-At: Chris Moore wrote: > In this case X/Y is 1/30,000,000 or so. Was it worth wasting all that > time scanning 29,999,999 clean files to prevent just one virus being > installed? What price is the average user willing to pay to prevent > having their keypresses logged and transferred to a stranger, or to > prevent their Internet banking details being stolen? Absolutely. The important figure here is 1. 1 virus found (or more).