Re: Spreading an anti-virus like a virus

[Michael Cecil <macecil () comcast net>]

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 21:52 +0530, Pranav Lal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At some point I have read that a possible approach in dealing with
> the spread of a computer virus over the Internet is to make the
> anti-virus spread like a virus. I remember reading a debate on this
> approach. Does any one have any links?

Bruce Schneier cuts to the heart of the matter here:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/benevolent_worm.html
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