[Info-vax] Anti-virus ?

Dave Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Thu Aug 10 22:27:26 EDT 2023


On 8/10/2023 9:17 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/10/2023 9:09 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 8/10/2023 6:57 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 8/10/2023 5:35 AM, John Dallman wrote:
>>>> In article <0948a0e4-51d5-49c5-974c-5f843d6d84aen at googlegroups.com>,
>>>> gxys at uk2.net (Ian Miller) wrote:
>>>>> See OpenVMS FAQ 5.2 http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dec-faq/vms/part3/
>>>>>
>>>>> There have been a couple of scanners of windows files held on VMS
>>>>> servers and there are various security products for OpenVMS.
>>>>
>>>> That FAQ is almost 18 years old. Is there no newer version?
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>> Hoff stopped maintaining it and nobody volunteered to take over.
>>>
>>> Classic VMS problem.
>>
>> Regardless, 18 years or so, still lots of rather valuable information there.
>
> Most of the stuff is probably still correct.
>
> 18 years is many years. But HP/HPE was not pumping out tons
> of new functionality every year in those years.
>
> But all about VSI and the x86-64 port must be missing. And some stuff
> about third party products and integration with the rest of the IT world
> may be a bit dated.
>
> As an example the referenced section talks about "Microsoft MS-DOS,
> Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME variants" and
> "Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP".
>
> Arne
>
>

You seem to miss my point.  If one is going to run a VMS system, then, now, 
whenever, there is plenty of useful information.  I'd call it timeless information.

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