RE: How Secure is Windows, Really?

I did work for one software house some years ago (does the S/38 count in this?) 
they had a S/38 client, and the two programmers from our software house who 
looked after them prior to me getting there hated each other, and were each 
having affairs with seperate women in the client company, well one left, and a 
few months later when the other guys girlfriend signed onto the system on her 
birthday, instead of the menu she expected she got a screen saying "BOOM the 
bomb goes off!" then everyone else who signed on after her got the same screen. 
The client was soon in deep trouble, and could not get hold of the guy to help 
and very foolishly were signing off and on all over the place trying to get it 
cleared. The upshot of all this was the guy had put a simple CL program into 
the signon routine that checked the date and user ID, when the girl signed on 
and it was her birthday or later then it set a flag and whoever signed on at 
any terminal (it was all dumb stuff then)after that it just displayed the 
screen. A very simple "virus"/malicious CL pgm, but because of circumstances 
the client was down for about 6 hours, from what I was told by their manager. 
Daft thing was they had left the source on the box so any malicious little 
weasel could re-activate it at any time. As for iSeries programmers being 
morally unable to write viruses because they "aren't built that way" as someone 
roughly said, I don't think that really holds water. Just my thoughts.

Steve 

 

From my recollection NO iSeries has ever been shut down by a virus running 

on the iSeries, but the FUD factor can sometimes create a perceived need 
:-)

I would love to hear a real live story of an iSeries shut down by an 
iSeries virus. 

Anyone, anyone ?

Regards,
Richard Schoen
RJS Software Systems Inc. 
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