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!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Embedded Keynote Speaker Mentions Ada 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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:28:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.9.155 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1095884917 63.184.9.155 (Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:28:37 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:28:37 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3958 Date: 2004-09-22T20:28:37+00:00 List-Id: Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > Tom a �crit : > >> 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. > > Well, at least there would be no buffer-overflow type attacks... And no silently overflowing integer attacks. www.AdaIC.com and archive.AdaIC.com run on a server with the web server software written in Ada. According to Randy B, everything that goes around on the internet has attacked the server, but nothing has succeeded in over 3 years. -- Jeff Carter "People called Romanes, they go the house?" Monty Python's Life of Brian 79