On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 02:30 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >> SELinux does not work like an anti virus program. > > > > It works very much like FluShot+ for MSDOS did. > > An antivirus program of any sort has pretty much nothing in common with > Mandatory Access Control. I am not sure what sort of relationship you > see in between them. If memory serves, Flu-shot+, attempted to prevent virus replication by redirecting system interrupts that would allow such. So I can sort of see how someone might draw a parallel in a narrow-minded sense. After that, however, the two diverge a lot conceptually.
