RE: Scanning the iSeries (IFS) for Viruses

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: oliver.wenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> well, we had a virus on our AS/400 IFS - but that was about nearly 15
> years ago (in '90 or '91).
> We cleaned all our PC's and servers over the weekend just to come back
> monday morning and find the
> virus active again. After some more hectic hours we found that the
virus
> was in the IFS Pcsupport folders.

Not to belabor the point, but I want to be clear that this is NOT an
iSeries virus.  This is a Windows virus on a network drive.  The fact
that the network drive is an iSeries doesn't matter - it could be a Unix
machine, a Macintosh, or a freakin' Amiga for that matter.

The fact that you are allocating part of your disk space to be used by
Windows machines is what makes it a carrier.  The iSeries itself is
completely immune to the virus (as would be the Unix or Mac machines).
If there were no Windows machines on your network to catch the virus
(much less to give it to the iSeries in the first place) you would have
no problem.

You shouldn't need any special software to scan for such viruses.  Any
Windows-based virus scanner that can include network drives is fine.
Make sure you have a machine that can map all of your IFS shared folders
as drives and then scan the mapped drives.

Joe