worms worms worms

[burns]

On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 20:49, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> These worms are so benign it's pathetic.  If only the Windows world realized just how much peril they could be in!  So far we've only really had worms that self-propagate and then did some token act to prove that they weren't gay.  But how many CodeRed and NIMDA machines could have had a format c: in them?  And this one?  Wow, it's REALLY benign.  Replicate then throw some traffic against Microsoft.  Again, this genre of Worm hasn't yet left the Proof Of Concept phase yet.  And they're really missing some opportunity to do some real damage.  This one is really bad because you know it immediately when you're whacked.  Not like the previous few which secretly spread and kept spreading while admins were none-the-wiser
>

Code that causes this much disruption of commerce is anything but
benign. These are more than just the digital equivalent of a rck thrown
through a window, they suck up huge amounts of bandwidth, both as people
attempt to deal with them and for the fact that many carry DDoS
elements, plus they cause significant loss in productivity.

The people that write and launch these programs in the wild should
caught and forced to do something really unpleasant for a very long
time.
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burns