Monday, March 29, 2004
'Witty' worm infects, dies quickly - News - ZDNet
It's just a thought, but instead of posting news of vulnerabilities on a website, which is bound to lead to turnaround attacks like this, why not construct a worm yourself that seeks out such vulnerable machines and patches them automatically? After all, we're happy with LiveUpdate and other such systems offering us updated virus protection - why not take it a stage further for firewalls and so on? And then most of the traffic will be solving the problem, not simply chatting about it or being virrulent code.
It's just a thought, but instead of posting news of vulnerabilities on a website, which is bound to lead to turnaround attacks like this, why not construct a worm yourself that seeks out such vulnerable machines and patches them automatically? After all, we're happy with LiveUpdate and other such systems offering us updated virus protection - why not take it a stage further for firewalls and so on? And then most of the traffic will be solving the problem, not simply chatting about it or being virrulent code.
(c) 2003-2005 Russell Beale
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