RE: OT: malware checkers

I still believe the question below is appropriate to this list, because I
just don't see how You can thwart an MI hacker using an HLL...  I defer to
the moderators, of course.. and icbw, being fairly lame at MI.

Fwiw, (from M-L Tech List), this is the reason I thought to ask the question
'bout 6 months back...:

| -----Original Message-----
| From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of trevor perry
| Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:59 AM
| Subject: Re: BIG News/Press for the iSeries :-)
|
|
| Just an interesting note.. if we DID have pimply teenagers hacking the
| iSeries in the middle of the night, wouldn't that signify a
| higher level of
| popularity of our beloved platform?  Bragging about not being hacked seems
| to me to prove our diminishing significance. I say, bring on the
| hackers and
| spread the word!!



| -----Original Message-----
| From: mi400-admin@midrange.com [mailto:mi400-admin@midrange.com]On
| Behalf Of jt
| Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 12:35 AM
| To: mi400@midrange.com
| Subject: RE: [MI400] OT: malware checkers
|
|
| | it was pretty effevtive. You would accept false positives.
|
| Sure, I would accept false positives...  But question is whether
| many false
| negatives could get through...?
|