RE: iSeries-based virus programs

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Janet,

I think there is an AS/400 based virus scan engine.  It works with Domino I
believe.  Don't know anything more about it.

Regarding your end users not updating virus definitions and turning scanning
off, check out Norton's Corporate edition AV.  Everything is controlled from
a single machine.  Users can NOT turn the scanning off.  And the central
server does the update of the definitions and distributes them to the
clients.  We paid about $1,000 for a 25 workstation license.  And that
includes their NAV For SMTP gateways.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of jkrueger@andrewscg.com
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 2:26 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: iSeries-based virus programs

With the latest round of PC viruses being spread around the world, the IFS
on
some AS/400 and iSeries boxes is once again acting as a virus carrier...
Have
any of the virus-scanning or security companies come out with AS/400-based
virus
scanners that can be installed in a way that would prevent virus-infected
files
from being stored in the IFS?  Or is the only option to somehow force all
the
attached PCs to have active virus scanners in place, and then do a periodic
batch scan of the IFS from an attached PC?

(My suggestion is to have a security officer periodically do spot checks on
attached PCs, and then bonk any offenders who turned off virus scanning with
a
baseball bat, but some companies seem to think that suggestion is a bit too
violent for their enterprises...)

Janet Krueger
Andrews Consulting Group


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