RE: VIRUS Alert for the LIST

["Martin, Booth" <BoothM@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

How could this happen?  Isn't QSYS an object with Security protections,
including read, write, and delete?  A PC won't have those rights unless the
user of the PC is a user that already has rights to the QSYS object, or am I
completely misunderstanding the issue?

On the PC I can delete/overwrite secured files merely by addressing the disk
space and writing new data over that disk space by writing a bit of
malicious code, but does the AS/400 allow me, as a code-writer, to access
specific disk space?  I thought that was the important security feature of
single-level storage?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 1:27 PM
To: boothm@goddard.edu
Subject: Re: VIRUS Alert for the LIST


Any virus that attacks a PC can totally wipe out your AS/400,
true.  Such as deleting the library QSYS.  But the AS/400 is not
hosting the viruses.


Regards,

Jim Langston
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