Re: Virus's on IPCS?

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

Paul,

  In theory yes this is true BUT.  
  First it still must pass AS/400 security no differently than your basic CA
user on a workstation Not inside the AS/400.  If security is set up correctly
this is not a problem.  On the 'processor formerly known as IPCS' it is
certainly possible to have a virus infect the OS.  (Side note: When the FSIOP
was first introduced and OS/2 was the only option, IBM claimed that you COULD
NOT get a virus on the FSIOP because they controlled what was loaded both into
the OS/2 system partition and into memory during system boot up.)  
  Second Since one of the characteristics of a Virus is that it propogates
itself by actually infecting operating code this would still not be an OS/400
virus even if it could do 'bad things' since it would not be able to propogate
itself through to other OS/400 systems.

 - Larry

PaulMmn wrote:
> 
> I hate to give people ideas, but couldn't a program running on the
> FSIOP/IPCS/INS run some remote commands and do some mischeif to the host
> AS/400?
> 
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
> 
> >Vaughan--
> >
> >>As far as I'm aware, the IPCS can be affected by viruses as well as being
> >>a carrier and forwarding onto other PC's, but viruses have no way to
> >>access and/or delete any OS/400 objects.
> >>
> >>Is this correct?  As we're thinking of putting in an IPCS soon, and have
> >>a rather large PC network
> >
> >A virus-infected NT Server running on the IPCS has the same likelihood of
> >directly affecting AS/400 objects as a virus-infected NT Server running on
> >an external server: none.
> >
> >What are your expectations with the IPCS card? What apps do you expect to
> >run on it? Given that you have "a rather large" PC network, do you think the
> >IPCS can scale well enough for you? How big is "rather large"?
> >
> >The IPCS card (whoops, make that the Integrated Netfinity Server), seems
> >like a great deparmental file and print server to me, but I question its
> >capabilities when it comes to serving up NT for lots of users. Just wondered
> >what you thought.
> >
> >rp
> 
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