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August 20, 2003Ok, I've decided anti-virus virii are badOk, I made up my mind. I believe any sort of worm is bad. I was thinking this already, but a news article I just read brought that home to me. The Associated Press reports that when Air Canada got hit with the MSBlast worm it caused a lot of havok. What was worse though was that as administrator's are trying to remove MSBlast they find it extremely difficult (read impossible) because the "Nachi fixing worm" is swamping network systems with traffic and causing denial of service to critical servers with organizations. Now, I give the Nachi programmers credit in a creative and unique way to try to fix these holes, but its no better than the original worm. Although the idea may be sound, the method is not. Does that make sense? So those of you weilding virogen's PLEASE don't mutate the worms! We don't need any more of them. Posted by SilverStr at August 20, 2003 08:38 PM |
 
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Smashing the Stack
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