From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c23311c4d57b937e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-stoc.telia.net!217.209.241.210.MISMATCH!news-stod.telia.net!telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada and malicious software References: <414B6E62.9070402@acm.org> <0hL2d.762$QB1.501@trndny02> <414E2306.6030404@acm.org> <8%q3d.1820$kn2.1441@trndny07> <414EE3A0.9080106@acm.org> <97de285c.0409211234.596b663a@posting.google.com> <97de285c.0409212220.4fba573f@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <97de285c.0409212220.4fba573f@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:21:42 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1095844902 217.209.116.179 (Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:21:42 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:21:42 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3923 Date: 2004-09-22T09:21:42+00:00 List-Id: Tom wrote: > One question that I would like an answer for is: > Is Ada less susceptible to computer virii than C++ and Java on the > Windows XP operating system? Now that is a question that would come > up more often where I work. If you mean true viruses then I can't see that there would be any=20 difference. The choice of programming language doesn't affect a=20 program's ability to modify the code of another program. (On the other=20 hand, choice of operating system does.) If you mean malicious code in general, then yes, Ada programs would be=20 less subjected to worms, cracking tools and other things that exploit=20 security holes. Security holes are often buffer overflows, and as=20 Jean-Pierre Rosen said, Ada programs do not have buffer overflows.=20 Arithmetic overflows also occur, and Ada protects well against those too.= --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu