[Gllug] Code Red worm sleeps?

[Gordon Joly]

>
>Any machine from which an attack originates is unpatched and vunerable.
>How about a counter-virus which would utilise the known vunerability on the
>attacking machine to both wipe out the worm from that machine, and install
>the patch (or something smaller and simpler, maybe) such that the machine is
>then no longer vunerable?
>
>Purely a thought experiment, but still...
>


Isn't that how AIDS started?

An experiment that went wrong.

Gordo
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