The simple answer is ³No². Realistically, most hackers can barely afford their laptops. Not many have the funds to put a zSeries box in their garage to play with, and most installations don¹t let them on to play, so there isn¹t a lot of knowledge within the hacker¹s easy reach for learning about the mainframe. This makes Windows, and even Linux, much easier targets for the majority of hackers. Add to this that most mainframes don¹t deal with a lot of e-mail, which limits the hacker¹s attack entry possibilities, and the fact that it runs a completely different instruction set from what the hackers are used to, and it gets left fairly much alone.
Even if / when a hacker gets into a mainframe, they tend to run with strict definitions of users, ownership and permissions, concepts that Windows completely lacks, so the files the hacker would want to attack are not accessible to them. Virus programs scan e-mail and the installed files on a system. The hacker can¹t get to the files that would be worth attacking, and the mainframe doesn¹t process a lot of e-mail, so the effort would largely be worthless. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. RO-OE-5-55 200 First Street SW /V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ ----- ^^-^^ "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." On 11/26/08 10:24 AM, "clifford jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there such athing as Virus Software for z/VM like Norton is for Windows and > such.... > > Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. Sign up today. > <http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_1 > 12008>
