RE: Sasser connects to AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: RE: Sasser connects to AS/400
From: Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:42:29 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 4 May 2004, Joe Pluta wrote:

> The point is that even if Sasser (or any other virus) attempts to attack
> your AS/400, it still cannot do any damage - unless you have Windows
> machines in your network.  As I've said before: if you think of network
> security as an immune system, Windows is HIV.

Joe, I prefer one of the Lassa virus mutations as a reference...much
nastier....more contagious....but either way, you're dead...

Don in DC

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