On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Coffin Michael C wrote: > Agreed. In order for a virus to have any effect on VM it would have > to be written in such a way as to launch itself and run in CMS in a > user virtual machine (extremely unlikely) and/or infect CP itself > (next to impossible, if not completely impossible - certainly > impossible from a non-priviledged virtual machine which your > Linux/390's should be). > > So the long and short of it is that even if you were to receive a virus on > Linux/390, you are 99.999999999% sure it cannot effect VM in any way, with > exceptions noted. > That is also true for unix... until you get into root... for VM it would be to get logged on to the privileged user(s) who can write new kernels, save new shared systems, etc etc. For MVS it would be to run a program authorized. There is always a way...
John Alvord
