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Again, this boils down to how you define a virus. If some shareware decides to delete everything in QSYS is that a virus? david@midrange.com on 12/27/99 11:21:37 AM Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet cc: Fax to: Subject: Re: VIRUS Alert for the LIST At 09:20 AM 12/27/99 , you wrote: >The 400 is most definitely vulnerable to a virus. While this is true .. the AS/400 is technically vulnerable to a virus ... I don't think it's very realistically vulnerable. Consider: 1. Most virus authors are interested in creating massive disruption in the computing industry ... with the limited number of AS/400's on the market they just aren't a target. 2. A virus author would need an AS/400 to write the virus on ... considering the cost of a system, just to be a virus test bed, it's pretty impractical. 3. How many people in the world know enough about the AS/400 to write an effective virus? I really don't think you can write an effective virus in RPG ... so in depth knowledge of C and/or MI would be required. I'll bet a majority of the people capable of doing such a feat are on this list :) 4. Most viruses exploit holes in the OS to do their damage ... how many holes does OS/400 have? david -- | Internet: david@midrange.com | WWW: http://www.midrange.com/david | | This message was written and delivered using 100% | post-consumer (recycled) data bits. +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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