Re: viruses and the IFS & Merry Christmas

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Al, 

pic4u.exe was on the TV news the other night.  It comes as an attachment on your e-mail. You click on it and absolutely nothing happens.  They then changed the PC's clock to 11:59:30, 12/31/1999 and we watched.  At midnight the screen went black and the person said "We can tell you from experience that the disk drive in this machine is now empty.  pic4u.exe is a very nasty virus."

Merry Christmas to all, and a Thousand More.
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Booth Martin
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"Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@ibm.net> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com 12/23/1999 11:21 AM Please respond to MIDRANGE-L

To:        MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com         cc:                 Subject:        Re: viruses and the IFS & Merry Christmas

At 09:05 PM 12/22/1999 -0500, you wrote:

We hear that the AS/400 has never had a virus. Is this true for the IFS? 


IMHO, the AS/400 natively is virus proof.  It is clearly possible for the IFS to be a carrier of a virus.

 Is there some thing that prevents the IFS from being trashed by pic4u.exe for instance? 

Booth, I don't know what this program is.

Merry Christmas to all, and a have a Happy (Uneventful) New Years.

Al




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