On 11/26/08 17:09 David Boyes said:
On 11/26/08 10:24 AM, "clifford jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there such athing as Virus Software for z/VM like Norton is for
> Windows and such....
Intel-based viruses don’t work at all on Z, and while they do exist
(XMAS EXEC, anyone?) there are features in the RSCS product and a
limited capability in the TCPIP product to deal with them.
Boy, does that bring back memories!
I wrote the GRINCH EXEC in Rexx within minutes of it showing up on our (very
large) university system. It was a simple search and destroy routine that
scanned the system RDR spool and "stole" the offending files. ;-)
Its main claim to fame was that because it was written in Rexx, it was quick to
implement and it kept the spool from filling up. In those days, that caused an
ABEND. GRINCH was fairly widely distributed around VM university sites, but in
all honesty it wasn't that sophisticated and many shops wrote their own.
I left VM at Y2K (kicking and screaming) so I'm not terribly current, but can
anyone recall an example of a "VM virus" besides XMAS EXEC?
-Chip Davis-
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