[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Jan 22, 2:38 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> koeh... at spock.koehler.athome.net wrote:
> > In article <6thdpsFb03n... at mid.individual.net>, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> >> How many tmes you going to trot out this same tired story.  Getting hit with
> >> a virus is not as much a OS or system problem as it is a user problem.
>
> >    Which is why we get hit with virii on VMS every day?
>
> >    Seriously, heavily trained Windows admins have not been able to protect
> >    our Windows systems.  Not if they're plugged in and turned on.
>
> You can safely plug them in and turn them on.  It's when you connect
> them to a network that you have to worry about "electronic organisms"
> infecting your Windows systems.

"It's when you connect them to a network that you have to worry"

Or also when you allow storage devices or files originating from
another box to be plugged in (eg via CD or USB stick) to the system
we're considering - there are other virus transport mechanisms besides
network connections (maybe you meant that but didn't say it as
such)...

So the choice would seem to be permanent isolation, or permanent
worry, or keep taking the happy pills. It's obviously unthinkable to
change the underlying OS, right?