Zonealarm warning

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:58:54 -0500 stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com wrote:

> 
> 
> >Previous versions of the GnuCash installer did not do this, so why this one?
> >
> >  
> >
> The "ZoneAlarm" folks fixed a bug?
> 
> This might be hard for non computer science types to understand but an 
> installer is installing something that the "checker" program cannot 
> determine is harmless and so must be considered potentially malicious. 
> In other words, it is IMPOSSIBLE to have a program that can IN GENERAL 
> examine the code of a program and determine its run time behavior. The 
> way you prove this impossibility is closely related to how Alan Turing 
> proved the "halting problem" long ago (that no general purpose "checker" 
> could determine whether programs would loop so if you have ever seen 
> that proof you'd know how to construct this one). The rest of you, take 
> our word for it.

One way around this is for the virus checker (ZoneAlarm) having a
'signature' of all know legitimate installer programs and knowing to
pass them.  In this case, maybe ZoneAlarm does not have the signature
for GnuCash 2.4.0...

> 
> Michael
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