[Gllug] Code Red worm sleeps?

[Xander D Harkness]

That would be cool,

Linux geeks save M$!

No doubt they would be banged up by the FBI for writing malicious
viruses against M$ :-(

Cheers
Xander


> I just had a thought - talking to a collegue here.  What would it take to
> write something which fit the following:
> 
> 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...
> 
> > jim
> 
> Cheers
> Richard
> 
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