Re: Viruses, Trojan horses and worms

From: Njål Fisketjøn <n.f@figu.no>
To: <MI400@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:17 PM
Subject: Viruses, Trojan horses and worms


James_H._H._Lampert wrote:

> I know of not a single case of an AS/400
> becoming infected with a virus, or a
> Trojan horse, or a worm.
>


I think that's due to the fact that the internals
of the AS/400 are far less known than the internals
of Windows/Linux etc, and that people with the required
knowledge are too "old" to have any interest in creating
such software.

===> this a new twist :-)

An AS/400 programmer seeking revenge would probably do
much more harm by randomly invalidating DB records and/or
sabotaging backup routines.

===> the bad guys are not out to wreck your system;
they are out to steal useful stuff and such.





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