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  • Subject: Re: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?
  • From: John Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:24:41 -0500

Just don't get it eh ?  I thought we settled this last year.  If you can
create an object on the 400 then you can create a virus.  You can't
create an object on your 400 ?????   How do you use it then :)

Give up the notion that you need to use a "boot sector" to be a virus. 
This isn't true on a PC and it isn't true on the 400.  The boot sector
is just a convenient place for the virus to hide.

John Hall


> Bob,
> 
> How can an OS/400  virus spread when the processor instructions to
> create/change an object are privileged?    That means only IBM processes
> can create a virus. Once the object is created, it cannot be altered except
> with privileged instructions that a non-IBM process cannot use.   Almost
> any machine at level 40 security is completely protected.
> 
> Now a guy could get a Trojan horse set up, but even that is tough for a
> properly set up machine.
> 
> The point here is, if we can figure out how to spread an OS/400 object
> virus, we can stop it before it starts.
> 
> Jim
>
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