On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:53:28 -0800, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote:

> I can believe auditors would ask a question like , virus checking on 
> mainframes, been doing systems work on mainframes 40+ yrs, never 
> seen a virus AT ALL..
> On a PC totally different issue, btw I think one of the reason you dont see
> viruses on mainframes because of the difficulty required to write one  
> IMHO ..
> 
>Scott J Ford
 
Our auditors don't think that way. They think a computer is a computer is a
computer and they all run windows and they all need McAfee AntiVirus because
that is what the windows team said they run on all the desktops. So we were
hit because we did not have McAfee on the z890. 

/Tom Kern

PS. They did not appreciate my picture of the z890 with a McAfee box on top
of it.

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