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Joe Pluta wrote:
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'm not 100% sure, but I think Symantec AV has detected possible bytecode viruses from websites that tried to install an applet on my machine. It was a while ago ... and, as I said, I'm not sure.

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

No argument ... but, IMO, now-a-days most viruses spread through user stupidity.

"Dear System i User, this is IBM support, our predictive failure system has detect that your machine will experience catastrophic system error within 24 hours if you do not apply a critical patch. Please signon to your system as QSECOFR, upload the attached PTF to your system, and run the program. This will correct the defect and your system will not fail. Thank you very much. P.S. Due the the urgent nature of this patch, normal support will not be aware of it. Please do not bother them by calling."

david


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