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  3. January 2007

RE: How Secure is Windows, Really?

From: Cassidy, Alan

...The only reason to have a program write a file to your IFS is if you
got it from someone else (I'm not even going to dignify the concept of
writing a program that creates a virus).

==> (x)There are plenty of reasons to have a program write a file to your
IFS, good, valid, business reasons. I believe IBM keeps some config files
in the IFS. If you're dealing up Java, WAS, Apache, serving up HTML, or
whatnot, you probably have some pretty important files inside that there
IFS.


Not a file that you got from an untrusted source! 

Joe

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