RE: Anti-virus for i5OS

["John Earl" <john.earl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > "Dear System i User, this is IBM support, our predictive failure 
> > system has detect that your machine will experience catastrophic 
> > system error within 24 hours if you do not apply a critical patch.  
> > Please signon to your system as QSECOFR, upload the attached PTF to 
> > your system, and run the program.  This will correct the defect and 
> > your system will not fail.  Thank you very much.  P.S. Due the the 
> > urgent nature of this patch, normal support will not be 
> aware of it.  
> > Please do not bother them by calling."
> >   
> And no amount of anti-virus software will protect you from that.

True, but a QALWOBJRST system value set to *NONE will.

jte

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:27 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Anti-virus for i5OS
>
> David Gibbs wrote:
> > No argument ... but, IMO, now-a-days most viruses spread 
> through user 
> > stupidity.
> >
> > "Dear System i User, this is IBM support, our predictive failure 
> > system has detect that your machine will experience catastrophic 
> > system error within 24 hours if you do not apply a critical patch.  
> > Please signon to your system as QSECOFR, upload the attached PTF to 
> > your system, and run the program.  This will correct the defect and 
> > your system will not fail.  Thank you very much.  P.S. Due the the 
> > urgent nature of this patch, normal support will not be 
> aware of it.  
> > Please do not bother them by calling."
> >   
> And no amount of anti-virus software will protect you from that.
>
> So in general anti-virus software protects you from things 
> you could be (and should be) protecting yourself against with 
> good security practices, while at the same time giving you a 
> sense of safety that can easily be undermined by any 
> aggressively stupid user.
>
> Joe
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