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Don't stop there. How about a microsoft macro attacking AS/400 files via ODBC or modifying devds to shut down TCP/IP? > -----Original Message----- > From: Ray Peterson [SMTP:rpeterso@witc.tec.wi.us] > Sent: Sunday, December 26, 1999 8:34 PM > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > Subject: Re: VIRUS Alert for the LIST > > > > David Gibbs wrote: > > > No, a file on the IFS is *NOT* immune from viral infection ... Functionally > > the AS/400 is immune from the effects of a virus, due to it's architecture, > > but a PC file is still a PC file. There's nothing inherent in the AS/400 > > to protect an IFS file from infection. In short: The AS/400 is actually > > quite vulnerable to viruses ... but it can only carry the problem, not be > > affected by it. > > This was true of your fathers AS/400, but I'm not as confident as some in > today's AS/400. Not that the AS/400 itself is any less immune. However, > with the advent of the IFS, Operations Navigator, administration via a Java > web browser, Domino, etc., to some extent the AS/400 is only as protected > as the weakest link - in each of these cases a "PC" architecture, not an >AS/400 > architecture. And often a PC program executing on the PC but updating > AS/400 objects. I wouldn't pretend to have the skills to be able to create > such a virus, trojan horse, or other malicious code. But I do think we have > to consider the possibility, and indeed be prepared to defend against it. > > Are the following examples a "stretch"? > > Melisa was a microsoft mail system "virus". Is Domino immune? > > Could a "Trojan Horse" be created to attach itself to an OpsNavigator PC > program and harvest user ids and passwords? After all, OpsNav can create > and change user id's and object permissions. > > Could OpsNav be modified to start IP servers you don't normally start - e.g. >FTP? > > Well you get the idea. Am I way off base here, or is there something to be > concerned with? > > Ray > > > -- > Ray Peterson > WITC - Shell Lake > 505 Pine Ridge Drive > Shell Lake WI 54871 > www.witc.tec.wi.us > 715 468-2815 > > > +--- > | 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 > +--- +--- | 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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