[Info-vax] Anti-virus ?

[Ehud Gavron]

On Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 2:35:43 AM UTC-7, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <0948a0e4-51d5-49c5... at googlegroups.com>,
> gx... 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? 
> 
> Also, some people will wrongly conclude that running on x86 makes VMS 
> susceptible to the huge number of x86 Windows viruses. 
> 
> John

Running on x86_64 impacts the host more than the guest.  A compromised host
means the guest's security is no longer trusted.  This has little to do with Windows.

Your comment doesn't address the various way to run VMS on X86(_64) but that
does make a difference.  For example, bare-metal ESXi is different than KVM or
QEMU or (oh whatever).  The bugs of the host become fatal to the guest.

Ehud