[Info-vax] Anti-virus ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-08-10, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Also, some people will wrongly conclude that running on x86 makes VMS
> susceptible to the huge number of x86 Windows viruses. 
>

No, but what it does make them vulnerable to are backdoors/vulnerabilities
in the firmware, vulnerabilities in the underlying VM, and vulnerabilities
in the underlying hardware.

No doubt the same issues exist on other platforms VMS runs on, but the
difference is that x86-64 is being actively probed by an entire army of
security researchers.

Simon.

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