[Gllug] Code Red worm sleeps?

[William Palfreman]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Gordon Joly wrote:

> >
> >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.

I thought received opinion was that it was from a man interfering with a
monkey, or vice versa.  

-- 
W. Palfreman.




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