RE: AS/400 gets infected by WINDOWS NT VIRUS!!!

[Joe Giusto <JGiusto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder if Norton will come up with a fix for it.  Hmmm...

But seriously, should there be concern for AS/400 viruses?


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-----Original Message-----
From:   David Gibbs [SMTP:dgibbs@mks.com]
Sent:   Friday, December 03, 1999 12:14 PM
To:     'Midrange Mailing List'
Subject:        AS/400 gets infected by WINDOWS NT VIRUS!!!

Ok folks, this is one for the history books ...
 
I just had an AS/400 get infected by the WINDOWS NT VIRUS!  And I'm not
talking about the INS/IPCS/FISIOP!
 
How you ask...
 
I was playing around with the /NTC file system and was able to connect it to
one of our NT Servers... but I was UNABLE to disconnect it.
 
No mater what I did, I could not figure out a way to get it disconnected ...
so I figured the NT server had effected the AS/400's behavior and did what
you would normally do to fix a NT system.  I rebooted it.
 
Lo-and-behold ... after an IPL, the AS/400 was back to normal.
 
btw: The VIRUS in question was "WINDOWS NT".  Quite insidious, IMHO.
 
david
 
 
 
 

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David Gibbs
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Mortice Kern Systems US, Inc.
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Lombard, IL  60148

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