RE: How Secure is Windows, Really?

...The only reason to have a program write a file to your IFS is if you got it 
from someone else (I'm not even going to dignify the concept of writing a 
program that creates a virus).

==> (x)There are plenty of reasons to have a program write a file to your IFS, 
good, valid, business reasons. I believe IBM keeps some config files in the 
IFS. If you're dealing up Java, WAS, Apache, serving up HTML, or whatnot, you 
probably have some pretty important files inside that there IFS. 

(x)There are always bad guys out there, and keeping your guard up is the first 
defense.

(x)QSYS.LIB is (technically speaking anyway) "i-ntegrated" into the IFS.

(x)Every i-programmer or designer or i-software vendor with a brain :) and a 
desire to continue working in the future on the greatest platform since the 
beginning of computer time, should get on the bandwagon with these "modern" 
programming opportunities. 

(x)The IBM midrange has been built from its inception with secure multi-user 
multi-tasking abilities, whereas the Microsoft servers have only been "kludged" 
to support those capabilities in a secure fashion in the last five years or so, 
getting due attention maybe since about when they started working on Vista.

(x)First, it's good to note that Mike and Joe still agree to the most important 
point in the subject: though one is an i5-AV vendor, both attest to the 
superior security of the i5.

--Alan