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

[John Smith (not the one @ HP)]

"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote in message 
news:Uc2dnVQRLaLE_-XUnZ2dnUVZ_hudnZ2d at giganews.com...
> johnwallace4 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!


The three golden rules to ensure computer security are: do not own a 
computer; do not power it on; and do not use it.
                -- Robert H. Morris
                   Chief Scientist, NSA National Computer Security Center