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!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:59:33 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1095872272 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:57:52 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:57:52 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3948 Date: 2004-09-22T12:59:33-04:00 List-Id: Bj�rn Persson wrote: > 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. ... > Jean-Pierre Rosen said, Ada programs do not have buffer overflows. > Arithmetic overflows also occur, and Ada protects well against those too. That should probably be tempered with "not as susceptable" to buffer overflows. If there was poor design and/or testing, then a production mode program that is compiled with the checks "off", is still vulnerable, although admitedly, much less likely. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg