[BRLTTY] libusb and viruses

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Fri May 21 04:50:24 EDT 2010


Kristoffer Gustafsson, le Fri 21 May 2010 07:37:35 +0200, a écrit :
> I have a friend that wanted to try the windows version of brltty.
> Now he sais that there are viruses in libusb.

His antivirus probably meant that the libusb filter takes control of
parts of the USB stack, which is indeed true and necessary, since
windows does not provide any good way to use USB from application
otherwise.

Samuel


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