RE: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?

[Colin Williams <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Of course the other reason it is unlikely is the very limited access to
information on the underlying hardware and software that runs the
AS/400.
Without that its like a very long walk up a very steep hill.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Crothers [mailto:bob@cstoneindy.com]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 1:21 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?


Jim,

>>What cannot possibly be done is to write an
OS/400 object that is a virus<<

This is totally wrong.  Nobody (that I know of) has 
successfully distributed
one, but it would be possible to do.

That said, there are several things that make virus's on our AS/400's
unlikely.  The first is just the number of systems.  There are about
50,000+- AS/400's in the USA.  How many 10's of Millions WinTel 
machines are
there?

This along makes it hard for the virus to propagate.

But it CAN be done!

Bob


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