Re: VIRUS Alert for the LIST

I wish I had  a toad. 

I have to admit I can't even figure out a delivery method, let alone a way 
to implement a virus. 

We are not talking about malicious code that a disgruntled programmer 
could add to a system,or a timebomb program that would "go off" if a 
person hasn't logged in for 90 days. 

We're talking about sending an e-mail to any person that has QSECOFR 
privileges of a AS/400, anywhere.  We'd also expect that said  person with 
QSECOFR privileges opens the e-mail and executes a PC program.  The 
results of that action would be for the attached AS/400s to go down 
horribly and hard.   I'd find that hard to believe on any AS/400 at 30 or 
above security level.

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Booth Martin
boothm@earth.goddard.edu
http://www.spy.net/~booth
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Jim Langston <jlangston@conexfreight.com>
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12/27/1999 05:37 PM
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Comments in line.

John Hall wrote:

> Ok now lets think about this.

> 4) I can write that virus in less than a week or Patrick Townsend will
> eat a toad !!! ;)

So could I, and that is sad.  I think I could write a virus for an AS/400 
a
lot faster than I could write one for a PC, not that I would do either.


Regards,

Jim Langston


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