white knight" worms/viruses
Brian Densmore
DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Wed Jul 28 15:46:28 CDT 2004
Maybe I'm a left-wing commie, but, I think
any 'owned' PC that is on the 'net that has been
'owned' for more than 2 weeks should be disconnected
from the 'net. Any PC so affected should be formatted.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelsay
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:24 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: white knight" worms/viruses
>
>
> http://slate.msn.com/id/2104432/
>
> This article raises the question of the ethics of using
> viruses or worms to repair vulnerabilities on Windows boxes.
> While this may not affect most Linux users, the
> bandwidth/network usage/abuse affects us all. While I think
> it is not ethical to breach someone's PC to fix a
> vulnerability, the ethics of the situation are starting to
> not matter to me. I look at all the hits on my Linux
> firewall from old worms (2 year old code red and nimda) and I
> think that there are some irresponsible users out there that
> need their OS fixed for them. Maybe the better thing to do
> is have the ISP block them for a week, and mail them a fix
> CD. The worm traffic often looks like a broadcast storm. I
> get a blinking traffic light on my cable modem even with no
> computers plugged in.
>
> Brian Kelsay
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>
>
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