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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <d6f29f7e-0505-4e6a-a4e5-c597ab375b6f at w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com>,
	johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk writes:
> On Jan 22, 12:10 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>> > 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?
>>
>> Storage devices have been a vector for malware in the past, but you
>> don't hear much about such incidents any longer!
>>
>> Once upon at time the mad race to "steal" software fueled the flow of
>> virii via floppy disks.  While it's still possible, to propagate a virus
>> in this way, I don't think it's anywhere near as common as it used to be!
> What's old is new again. Millions of PCs are allegedly affected right
> now by a virus which uses Autorun as one of multiple propagation
> vectors, ie CDs, DVDs, USB sticks, memory cards, etc are all

See my previous message.  Any PC setup to AutoRun anything is
misconfigured and the owner deserves whatever he gets.

bill

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