Re: Anti-virus for i5OS

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Gibbs wrote:
> Java?
>
> Not at the same layer as a native program ... but, strictly speaking, 
> it's code living on the IFS that's executing on the system.
>   
I would agree that the JVM is a possible vector for bad things to 
happen.  On the other hand, I don't know of an anti-virus program that 
looks for Java bytecode viruses.  I did find that the Microsoft JVM had 
a ByteCode verification exploit.

I can't figure out, though, how a virus would be able to exploit that.  
You'd actually have to give write access to the directory where your 
Java classes live.  That's a little different than a shared folder.  I 
mean, if you give write access to root, you're in deep doo-doo no matter 
how many anti-virus programs you run

Joe