OT: RC Vaccine?

[Thomas Mondoshawan Tate]

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Mm... Good points. I hadn't thought about it with regards to bandwidth
issues, etc. Perhaps then just a simple script running on a webserver that
sends an e-mail to postmaster@infected.ip.that.hit? Or would that be
considered unsolicited e-mail/SPAM?

-- Mondoshawan

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:57:22AM -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> On Monday 06 August 2001 07:07 am, Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:
> > 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, ugl=
y?
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> Tempting, but ethically ambiguous and definitely illegal.  This isn't=20
> theoretical, btw, there is a "worm" for Linux that does something very=20
> similar.  It was/is called the "cheese worm" and it supposed tries to rid=
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> "infected" Linux systems of known worms and backdoors.  Check out this li=
nk:
> http://slashdot.org/articles/01/05/17/0038205.shtml
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> If you read the feedback (mod +5 works well), you'll see the prevailing v=
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> of this.  It may *seem* like a good idea, but in the end it's still just =
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> uncontrolled program breaking into another computer.
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