‘On-Access’ Virus Scanning to Debut with OS/400 V5R3
April 20, 2004 Alex Woodie
One of the new features iSeries shops can look forward to in OS/400 V5R3 is the capability to detect and clean viruses at the moment a user attempts to open a file that’s been infected with a virus, or the file is otherwise accessed. This so-called “on access” virus scanning capability will debut with OS/400 V5R3, which IBM is preparing to announce. On-access scanning will require an OS/400 antivirus scanning engine, such as Bytware‘s StandGuard Anti-Virus. Bytware launched the industry’s first–and still the only–OS/400-based virus scanning and removal tool in the summer of 2003 (see “Bytware Launches OS/400 Antivirus |