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Originally posted by Patchou
I would like that but as pointed out, it's unfortunately too hard to do if it has to be reliable. I would need a team dedicated to it 24/7 and I just can't do that kind of thing right now (maybe next year if everything goes as planned... ).

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Interesting.

Now, what kind of team would that be? Magic scripters?
* Thor is curious

I'm sure you could find volunteers

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Originally posted by john-t
Suggestion: When a user downloads and installs a script Plus! scans the script for dodgy code and things and tells the user if it downloads stuff or it can be a potential threat.

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The answer.

Lol yeah a virus scanner for msn could be a good idea, but a good antivirus usually comes with messenger protection, like bitdefender for example? (:

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Originally posted by john-t

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Originally posted by john-t
Suggestion: When a user downloads and installs a script Plus! scans the script for dodgy code and things and tells the user if it downloads stuff or it can be a potential threat.

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The answer.

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And how do you suppose we check a dll or exe file that is part of the script?

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Originally posted by markee

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Originally posted by john-t

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Originally posted by john-t
Suggestion: When a user downloads and installs a script Plus! scans the script for dodgy code and things and tells the user if it downloads stuff or it can be a potential threat.

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The answer.

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And how do you suppose we check a dll or exe file that is part of the script?

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Idk The same way AV does it

doesnt WLM already support that?

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Originally posted by markee

And how do you suppose we check a dll or exe file that is part of the script?

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Small team of script testers that can determine what functions are called or what the exe is used for. That way, different people report different things and more malicious code would be stopped.  I'm personally all up for a bunch of us maintaining a list of malicious sites, scripts, programs and other files (zip for example) that, when linked to, get blocked. If it could be built into Plus! the only issue would be all the users downloading the updates would take a lot of bandwidth

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Originally posted by Spunky

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Originally posted by markee

And how do you suppose we check a dll or exe file that is part of the script?

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Small team of script testers that can determine what functions are called or what the exe is used for. That way, different people report different things and more malicious code would be stopped.  I'm personally all up for a bunch of us maintaining a list of malicious sites, scripts, programs and other files (zip for example) that, when linked to, get blocked. If it could be built into Plus! the only issue would be all the users downloading the updates would take a lot of bandwidth

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Hmmm, I guess that is a good point.  Bandwidth can be minimised with updates based on the time of the last update.  Just adding and removing the changes.

Also, I think because of the different ways you can you can show the same URL, then it would be quite a wise idea to use some more generic regex rather than a definite structure (but that is just my preference).

I guess this feature would be feasible with the community helping Patchou and keeping their eyes out for new problems (and with an adequate disclosure).

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Originally posted by Patchou
I would like that but as pointed out, it's unfortunately too hard to do if it has to be reliable. I would need a team dedicated to it 24/7 and I just can't do that kind of thing right now (maybe next year if everything goes as planned... ).

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Sounds good Thank you for taking my suggestion into consideration.