dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan) (08/18/88)
Like a lot of folks, I looked at Ross Greenberg's lastest version of FSP with combined anticipation and caution, since his previous versions had bitten me pretty badly. But I thought I would give it a try and see if he had at least fixed some of the bugs in FSP 1.2 that I had emailed to him a couple of times before. My first test was to setup FSP to flag my autoexec.bat and config.sys as being both unreadable and unwritable. This is supposed to prevent *any* form of "unauthorized" access from being allowed or going undetected. Then I attempted to edit both of these files with my Brief editor. Magic! Brief was able to read and write both of these files without so much as a peep from FSP. I have to say that FSP did detect and prevent casual TYPE's and COPY's of these files, but if I were writing a trojan or virus, I would simply use whatever file mechanism Brief uses and leave FSP guarding an empty house. Dick -- Dick Flanagan, W6OLD GEnie: FLANAGAN UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucscc!slvblc!dick Voice: +1 408 336 3481 Internet: slvblc!dick@ucscc.UCSC.EDU LORAN: N037 04.7 W122 04.6 USPS: PO Box 155, Ben Lomond, CA 95005