RE: Anti-virus for i5OS

You have an i5/OS game console installed on your production system? Do
you have GH3?

Seriously, I never install anything under QSECOFR. If something did
actually require use of QSECOFR to install I would tell the vendor to
fix it before I would install it. If IBM can avoid requiring QSECOFR
access for everything except the OS I would say that everyone else
should too.

If a vendor can make a business case for this policy other than laziness
I'd like to hear it.

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
Fiserv Midwest


-----Original Message-----
From: Buck [mailto:kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:29 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Anti-virus for i5OS


All true, but don't forget all those native packages that demand QSECOFR
authority to install and run under. There've been a spate of reports of
malware being installed at the factory floor for phones, game consoles
and the like. It's not inconceivable that the same thing could happen
to us, especially when we just automatically install so much stuff as
QSECOFR as a matter of habit...