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  3. April 2008

Re: Anti-virus for i5OS

Joe Pluta wrote:
I'm not sure I understand this, Buck. Are you talking about installing software into the IFS from an i5/OS terminal, or copying something to the IFS via mapped drive or FTP? If the former, yes, you have to keep all your safeguards in place. But I contend that the latter can't cause malware to execute on i5/OS.

Regular old native. Imagine you are a naughty programmer at a major ERP vendor and you plopped a back door in a program that adopts QSECOFR authority. The installation instructions say to sign on as QSECOFR to install the software. Voila, malware running in green screen, installed in green screen, stored in QSYS.LIB.

Yes, it's a hole, but when you do a security sweep and find several of your ERP (or cross reference tool) programs adopting QSECOFR authority, what can you do?

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