Hi Matthew

I quote from our 3k serious 44 "The Virus Lives"!!!

We were given an assignment to design a virus... I just wish I had thot
of what the guys who succeeded had.... Rich Trapp will remember it as well
The pulled a true "Cpt Kirk" hehehe

Now on the serious side... To be honest ... there is ... lots of
antivirus software that runs on the POSiX side of the 3k

Now that is where it needs to be because that is where we run things like
Apache or TomCat or other *nix like based packages that have known
vulnerabilities that could be exploited or used as the basis of a viral
package.

After all... Anybody run DNS on their 3k? Did you patch ??

Art "trying to find a Landfill for Dad's Junk !!" Bahrs

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Art Bahrs, CISSP
Arthur@Bahrs.us
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Quoting Dave Powell (in part):

"... when the malware writers get too far ahead of the anti-malware writers,
I can swap out PCs for old terminals and have the only functioning system in
the state "

I'm sure I'm not the only one that has had the pleasure of seeing the range
of odd looks on auditors' faces when you tell them, with a completely
straight face, that there has never been a documented case of a virus on or
for the HP3000, and there is no anti-virus software for the operating
system.

The conversation usually goes something like this:

Auditor: "There has to be..."

Me: "There isn't."

Auditor: "Find some..."

Me: "Won't make any difference, there isn't any."

Auditor: "Can you prove that?"

Me: "Yes, how much of a budget do you have for this purpose?"

Auditor: "Just give me a statement then."

Now there may be one out there somewhere, but I've never seen one yet to
this day. Now I'm sure someone is going to attack me and correct me, which
is fine, just be polite is all I ask.

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