10 Sep '10 05:15>
I just read a wiki about Linux AV's and the gist of it was Linux was much less prone to be attacked by rootkits, trojans, worms, viruses and the like because for one thing, there are so many flavors of Linux, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Xbuntu, etc.
Because each one has slight differences in source code, a virus written for Red hat can't infect Ubuntu, and so forth.
The problem with windows viruses is windows comes in only a few flavors, XP, Vista, 2000, 7, etc., and therefore gives a common target.
So here is my big idea: (don't ask ME how to do this, I am just the idea man here๐
In real life, bio viruses have to learn to infect the second generation all over again because sexual reproduction stirs the genetic pot to a certain extent and tends to neutralize viruses that endangered earlier generations of humans.
So how bout something like that for OS's? Linux X meets Linux Y, they temporarily get married, have somewhat different source code. They meld the OS's together and come up with a unique code that works for that computer, the daughter of X and Y, now Generation Z. Get the idea here? Linux continuously automatically rewrites itself to stay ahead of shyteware. It would only engender the exchange of certain key bits, probably less than a kilobyte of actual data changed from gen X to gen Z. Then a virus that attacked Gen X would not be able to attack Gen Z.
I'll bet a version could be thought up for windows too.
Any comments?
Because each one has slight differences in source code, a virus written for Red hat can't infect Ubuntu, and so forth.
The problem with windows viruses is windows comes in only a few flavors, XP, Vista, 2000, 7, etc., and therefore gives a common target.
So here is my big idea: (don't ask ME how to do this, I am just the idea man here๐
In real life, bio viruses have to learn to infect the second generation all over again because sexual reproduction stirs the genetic pot to a certain extent and tends to neutralize viruses that endangered earlier generations of humans.
So how bout something like that for OS's? Linux X meets Linux Y, they temporarily get married, have somewhat different source code. They meld the OS's together and come up with a unique code that works for that computer, the daughter of X and Y, now Generation Z. Get the idea here? Linux continuously automatically rewrites itself to stay ahead of shyteware. It would only engender the exchange of certain key bits, probably less than a kilobyte of actual data changed from gen X to gen Z. Then a virus that attacked Gen X would not be able to attack Gen Z.
I'll bet a version could be thought up for windows too.
Any comments?