Re: Mainframe ransomware solution

2021-10-10 Thread Peter Sylvester
On 08/10/2021 16:43, David Spiegel wrote: Hi R'Shmuel; AMV"SH, "... What about the Christmas Card Worm? ..." That was AFAIK on a VM system, not, an MVS system. Regards, David You could have "protected" the VM systems as much as you want, if a "friend" send you an exec/script/clist and you ex

Re: Mainframe ransomware solution

2021-10-10 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
The only thing I ever put on a system, similar to that, was a TSO program which produced a crude picture of the one finger salute. You could put whatever message you wanted on the hand. Silly me, I had the program executing at TSO logon. Management was not amused. -Original Message

Re: Mainframe ransomware solution

2021-10-10 Thread Seymour J Metz
My ILRBIRS only had the picture, no text. My favorite prank is the Cookie Monster written at MIT for Multics: .. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MA

Re: Mainframe ransomware solution

2021-10-10 Thread CM Poncelet
This reminds me of someone at a Company I worked for, can't remember which, where some programmer had displayed a prompt for whatever to which an end-user replied "f*@k" - upon which the program then replied, "Your place or mine?" Needless to say, management was not amused by this and the programme