[Info-vax] Android development Was Re: OT: Larry Ellison takes retirement as CEO of Oracle

[David Froble]

Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2014-09-20 16:48, Paul Sture wrote:

>> And to keep this on topic for c.o.v. VSI will have to acquaint
>> themselves with the topic of malware which runs on x64 systems.
> 
> ???
> Not really. Unless it's built for VMS, it will not run (unless VMS 
> suddenly starts being able to run Unix binaries, which I seriously doubt 
> will happen).

Well, let's think about this a bit.

x86 has an instruction set.

If you can get some x86 instructions into memory, and get them to start 
executing, that would be an issue.

Not saying this could be done.  Just mentioning one thing that might be 
possible.

Would also doubt that most malware would know what to do with VMS.

After the Israelies being able to tell which encryption algorithm was 
running by the sounds of the power supply, I'm not sure you can say 
"never" to anything ....