OT: RC Vaccine?

[Keith]

I'd be very careful.  The FBI might view this as any worm/virus and charge
you which they can.  They law prohibits unauthorized access at any level.

Actually I don't think the virus itself is illegal.  I think it is the
unauthorized access .

Keith


> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 07:07:11 -0700
> From: Thomas Mondoshawan Tate <phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu>
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: OT: RC Vaccine?
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>
> Just had a crazy thought about all this RC mess. How about writing an
> anti-worm-worm (or vaccine) that uses the same infection method, but
removes
> all copies of the RC and RCII worm from the system, notifies the system
> admin of each box it's run on and then kills itself after a specified
date?
> You could then write a script on your apache system that logs the IP of
the
> infected host, and then schedules an anti-infection-infection to be run
later.
> Whaddya think? Good, bad, ugly? =op
>
> -- Mondoshawan