RE: Here is a real reality check for every PC user...

Walden just wants to see me pop a vein... <laughing>

Walden, the iSeries is at least 2 orders of magnitude more secure than a
Windows desktop, depending on which way you want to measure security,
especially since you now have to rely on a two- or three-pronged security
system (MS, your favorite virus protection and your favorite mail scanner).

This is especially true now that we know that the major security vendors are
in league with other major corporations to allow them to install spyware
such as the Sony rootkit, which laid open every machine that played a Sony
music CD to complete takeover.

To hacker-proof my iSeries I just turn on security level 50 and don't run
scripting tools like PHP.  I follow normal procedures such as making sure my
HTTP pages are written professionally (that is, without SQL injection
faults) and I don't let OS/400 user profiles and passwords out into the
wild.

It's a LOT easier than locking down Windows and keeping it secure.

Joe


> From: Walden H. Leverich
> 
> Just as a reality check for every iSeries user too... The iSeries isn't
> hacker-proof either. Yes, I'll admit it has many advantages, but we
> can't sit back, kick up our heals, and say gee, look, that's all stuff I
> don't have to care about.