Re: VIRUS Alert for the LIST

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps the virus is sitting on your PC.  You are signed into the AS/400.
What security do YOU have to the AS/400 through your PC currently?
Or any system operation, etc...

Regards,

Jim Langston

"Martin, Booth" wrote:

> How could this happen?  Isn't QSYS an object with Security protections,
> including read, write, and delete?  A PC won't have those rights unless the
> user of the PC is a user that already has rights to the QSYS object, or am I
> completely misunderstanding the issue?
>
> On the PC I can delete/overwrite secured files merely by addressing the disk
> space and writing new data over that disk space by writing a bit of
> malicious code, but does the AS/400 allow me, as a code-writer, to access
> specific disk space?  I thought that was the important security feature of
> single-level storage?

<SNIP>

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