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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
> 
> 
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