Re: This Bug Is Nasty, Brutish, And Sneaky - Hackers have raised the stakes with a newbugalmostimmune to detection

Part of the virus problem is the Intel architecture that Microsoft depends
on. IBM processors uses separate code and data stacks, so data cant overflow
and become code. Will be interesting to see what happens to Apple as they
switch to Intel. Yes it's a big problem. The trend is a lack of concern,
which propagates the situation. Trojans have been around a very very long
time, long before computers, and probably wont ever go away. Sadly, not even
IBM can fix that one.

Mike Grant
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-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 11:04 AM
To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] This Bug Is Nasty, Brutish,And Sneaky - Hackers have
raised the stakes with a newbugalmostimmune to detection


Yes you did Mike - just saw that. Been WAY too busy ! Sorry about the rerun.

And amazing the lack of response on this topic. Do folks not think it's a
serious problem or are they under the misunderstanding that their antivirus,
etc. software is protecting them ?

I was discussing this with our oldest last night and he is in IT also. He
changed jobs late last year and after reading the article he said "Glad I'm
working with POS stuff now" :-)

As I told him, Microsoft needs to get with IBM and ask them to help make
Windows system objects as secure as the iSeries is - half joking because
that ain't gonna happen. But Microsoft has absolutely GOT to find a way to
lock there OS down - this is ALL their fault and is a NIGHTMARE for ALL of
us that have to deal with this.

Chuck

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