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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <glatvq$4e9$3 at tempo.update.uu.se>,
	Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article <lqZdl.5901$U5.52829 at newsb.telia.net>,
>> 	Jan-Erik Söderholm   <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>>>                                                           If he
>>> could do that, he could probably also write anything he liked
>>> to the PC.
>> 
>> Any decent AV software will stop that as will preventing "Auto-execute"
>> as mentioned above.  Hint:  if you stick in the driver disk for some
>> whiz-bang device you bought and it starts the install process all by
>> itself, your PC is mis-configured.
> 
> Well. A PC is then mis-configured by default at delivery. 

Yes.  But the point was that you couldn't fix it, and you can.

>                                                             And you have 
> to walk through a few steps before you can disable it. Not to mention 
> that a lot of people don't even know about this.

We wre talking about systems in corporate situations run by supposed
professionals, not "your momma's PC", remember.  If they don't know
how to set up a secure system and don't know where to find the info
they belong on the breadline and not in the corporate datacenter.

> (We really shouldn't say PC, though. This is a Windows thing, and is not 
> related to hardware.)

Many people here think it applies to any OS other than VMS.  Windows
is just their favorite target.  In any event, they are wrong.

bill

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