[Info-vax] Anti-virus ?

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On Saturday, August 12, 2023 at 3:41:28 AM UTC-7, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2023-08-11 19:35, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> > Oh, and BTW, judging by the fact Eisner has needed to be rebooted multiple 
> > times over the years due to various services locking up presumably due to 
> > attacks, I have little confidence that VMS in general would be robust 
> > within an actively hostile environment.
> I think you are misinterpreting some data, as well as making some 
> assumptions that I don't think are correct. 
> 
> By the way, I have an RSX system publicly on the internet, and it's 
> totally without firewalls, and on 24/7. Mainly to actually harden it. 
> But it's basically running stable without any issues since many years. 
> 
> So much for "hostile environment" being such a big problem. (Although I 
> should admit that I don't have some of the fancy services that are easy 
> to exploit...) 
> 
> Johnny

It's that last part that is quite important these days. It's all about services now, as communication is so important. So much of this security stuff was known by Digital, such knowledge has simply been left to rot.