Re: VIRUS Alert for the LIST

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Viruses seem to be becoming a lot more virulent in these later
days.  In the last 7 days I deleted 2 messages from my mail
server that had viruses attached.  And sent e-mails to the
senders telling them they had a virus.

With modern e-mail it is no longer a matter if you get a virus,
but when.

Just make sure you scan all files someone sends you that you
plan on opening.  Even if you know so and so was supposed to
be sending you a word document, so and so may not know he
has a virus.

Maybe they should just make virus writing a capital offense.
(For those of you who don't know me, that was said tongue in
cheek)

Regards,

Jim Langston

John Hall wrote:

> The 400 is most definitely vulnerable to a virus.  Forget the IFS and
> all that stuff.  The main thing that protects the 400 is that most shops
> do not load any executables from unknown sources.  Also most shops do
> not move executables from one system to another.  But how hard would it
> be to put in some malicious code into some shareware for the 400.  It
> would be very easy to set up a jobq entry that does a pwrdwnsys at 3:00
> am for example.
>
> Almost all viruses/worms need some sort of code to be executed to embed
> / replicate themselves.  But don't think that it would be impossible to
> exploit weak security on an as400 to write viruses.
>
> As a matter of fact if you are reading this e-mail on a computer that is
> also running client access a virus could easily modify your system,
> using whatever privs you have, through API's
>
> just open this nice holiday greeting card ...... NOT !!
>
> John Hall
> Home Sales Co.
>

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