In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:20:49 +0000
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> Anti-spyware anesthetises your OS before going to work
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> | As SPAM reaches record levels and more and more operating system
> | exploits are discovered every week the threat of spyware has become
> | greater than ever.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | As the name suggests this program boots into a different OS,
> | namely a modified version of Linux, to allow the scanner run
> | independently of Windows. This serves the purpose of being able to access
> | areas that the Vole (Inquirer's nym for Microsoft) normally doesn't
> | allow us to tread.
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35636
Using Linux as a disinfectant for Microsoft. My brain hurts,
although it's been done before in a different context, namely
sanitizing emails going to downstream Windows boxen.
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