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David Gibbs wrote:
Java?

Not at the same layer as a native program ... but, strictly speaking, it's code living on the IFS that's executing on the system.
I would agree that the JVM is a possible vector for bad things to happen. On the other hand, I don't know of an anti-virus program that looks for Java bytecode viruses. I did find that the Microsoft JVM had a ByteCode verification exploit.

I can't figure out, though, how a virus would be able to exploit that. You'd actually have to give write access to the directory where your Java classes live. That's a little different than a shared folder. I mean, if you give write access to root, you're in deep doo-doo no matter how many anti-virus programs you run

Joe

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