-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Cole Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 8:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Back Doors <snip> In fact, I'm kinda surprised that nobody's yet written a root kit for MVS. (Or have they? Nah... I think not. MVS is just too small a segment of the industry for it to be worth it.)
<snip> I don't know about a root kit, but I do know that a virus was written and proven to work. It seems that the loader apparently does not check the SSI information... Thankfully that particular item was contained in the "lab" where it was done and to my knowledge was never further operated. It was only done to see how difficult it would be to do such on a S/370 based system. Later, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
