Re: Virus's on IPCS?

["Roger Pence" <rp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  In theory yes this is true BUT.
>  First it still must pass AS/400 security no differently than your basic
CA
>user on a workstation Not inside the AS/400.  If security is set up
correctly
>this is not a problem.  On the 'processor formerly known as IPCS' it is
>certainly possible to have a virus infect the OS.

A very important point: The OS referred to above is _NOT_ OS/400. It is the
network operating system running on the PC server card.

This was clarified when Larry went on to say:

>itself by actually infecting operating code this would still not be an
OS/400
>virus even if it could do 'bad things' since it would not be able to
propogate
>itself through to other OS/400 systems.

rp


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