RE: How Secure is Windows, Really?

Yes. Just one example
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2127120/virus-writer-steals-three-days

There was an article a while back in Wired about a well known spammer that
used a virus to create open relays on PCs. He was offered a job by Symantec
(?) for 1 million dollars a year salary. He said 'Quite frankly, I can't
afford the pay cut'.
 
Mike Grant
Bytware, Inc.
775-851-2900 

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:02 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: How Secure is Windows, Really?


Another factor:  Do virus writers make much money?  If a virus writer 
takes the time to learn how to write a World's-Best OS/5 
virus, would he 
then be knowledgeable enough to choose to get a great paying real job?

David Gibbs wrote:

Jim Franz wrote:

The number of virus writers that know OS400 is pretty 

small, the number

of those that know BPCS, is probably even smaller.

the number that know sql is huge...
the number that know qshell  is big

Right ... but to do damage with a goal, you need to know the
application.  Knowing SQL doesn't tell you where the BPCS 

AP files are

(so you could, theoretically, cut yourself a check).

Doing something without knowledge of the application is 

just vandalism.

 Vandalism isn't enough of a enticement for a virus writer 

to try and

attack a companies iBox.

JMHO, of course.

david

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