Originally Posted by DonCorneo
Will this updater be able to prevent key loggers and such, especially ones that are uploaded through ads?
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There will be a security manager installed that will monitor and restrict the actions of modules. Modules will have to be signed if they want to gain special privileges, and the user will have to approve their access at least once.
This API has not been defined yet, so that is one of the things that will change in the near future. However, this is very much planned.
EDIT: With regards to ads, I patch into your OS-specific browser in a restricted functionality mode. While this means that ads should not be able to break through and install themselves, it's theoretically possible for a browser to have a security-related bug in it and get through. Depending on how it's distributed, this might be caught by the security manager and it might get through, but unfortunately there's nothing I can do about this. If you keep to updates, you should be fine. The ad window can NOT download files on its own, etc., without a bug in your browser. These need to be addressed by the creators of the browser.
That being said, I do not anticipate this being a problem. If this were a problem, we would see it more on the site itself; it would not be solely linked to this program.