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2010-08-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201007020846367870.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 07/02/2010 at 08:46 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Yet there are products such as ClamAV for Linux, so it appears that someone perceives a need. If you're passing data to a vulnerable system then it makes sense to scan those

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2010-08-04 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Just tell them, Oh! RACF does all that! Lying to your management is not a good idea. Agreed about lying, but see below: Paul wrote on 2 July this (I quote fully for clarity): Perhaps it's merely to satisfy a management edict that Every computer must run AV

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2010-07-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of George Henke Between a persistant virus and a hard drive failure, I've lost my entire address list and ask for your help in rebuilding it. I've also lost a lot of other things, but that's another story. :-( You

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2010-07-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 06:46:34 -0500, Chase, John wrote: The best anti-virus software I've found so far is Linux. :-) And, it's FREE! Yet there are products such as ClamAV for Linux, so it appears that someone perceives a need. Perhaps it's merely to satisfy a management edict that Every

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2010-07-02 Thread James Williamson
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 08:46:36 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 06:46:34 -0500, Chase, John wrote: The best anti-virus software I've found so far is Linux. :-) And, it's FREE! Yet there are products such as ClamAV for Linux, so it appears that someone

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2010-07-02 Thread Shane Ginnane
Merely your open systems friends protecting the unwashed masses. clamav is (predominantly) used on *nix mailhosts to remove viruses aimed at Windows users before handing on the mail. Shane ... On Fri, Jul 2nd, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: The best anti-virus software I've found

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2010-07-02 Thread Howard Brazee
On 2 Jul 2010 04:48:56 -0700, jch...@ussco.com (Chase, John) wrote: The best anti-virus software I've found so far is Linux. :-) And, it's FREE! Free helps. But when is the last time you got an MVS virus? -- For IBM-MAIN

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2010-07-02 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip- The best anti-virus software I've found so far is Linux. :-) And, it's FREE! -unsnip- I maintain that a properly tuned

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2010-07-02 Thread George Henke
I thought so too until I encountered backdoor graybird. Let me tell you this stuff is super subtle complete with boot sector traps, registry trojans. You need anti-virus in the toymachine world. Mainframe is still below the radar. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net

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2010-07-02 Thread Clark Morris
On 2 Jul 2010 13:51:38 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: I thought so too until I encountered backdoor graybird. Let me tell you this stuff is super subtle complete with boot sector traps, registry trojans. You need anti-virus in the toymachine world. Mainframe is still below the

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2010-07-01 Thread George Henke
Between a persistant virus and a hard drive failure, I've lost my entire address list and ask for your help in rebuilding it. I've also lost a lot of other things, but that's another story. :-( You need Kaspersky Anti-Virus. It is the best anti-virus software I know. I had a similar experience

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2010-06-30 Thread Rick Fochtman
Greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steve. Rick --- Steve Comstock wrote: Rick Fochtman wrote: A great number of you kind ladies and gentlemen have shared private E-Mail addresses with me in the past. I would be highly

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2009-07-06 Thread Steve Comstock
Rick Fochtman wrote: A great number of you kind ladies and gentlemen have shared private E-Mail addresses with me in the past. I would be highly appreciative (and VERY DISCRETE), if you could share that information again. Just drop me a line with Address as the subject line. Between a

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2009-07-06 Thread Rick Fochtman
Steve Comstock wrote: Rick Fochtman wrote: A great number of you kind ladies and gentlemen have shared private E-Mail addresses with me in the past. I would be highly appreciative (and VERY DISCRETE), if you could share that information again. Just drop me a line with Address as the subject

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2009-06-29 Thread Eric Bielefeld
. Systems Programmer Milwaukee, Wisconsin 414-475-7434 - Original Message - From: Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 7:35 PM Subject: OT completely.. A great number of you kind ladies and gentlemen

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2009-06-26 Thread Rick Fochtman
A great number of you kind ladies and gentlemen have shared private E-Mail addresses with me in the past. I would be highly appreciative (and VERY DISCRETE), if you could share that information again. Just drop me a line with Address as the subject line. Between a persistant virus and a hard