Re: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:14:37 -0000, Eduardo Tongson said:

> Outbreak of rogue nematodes? not
> I think the "worm" was stuck in there to make it trendy.
> This way of progating fixes may still prove useful in controlled
> environments. YMMV?

If your environment is controlled enough to make it "safe" to run a worm in it,
it's controlled enough that you can just *push* the frikking updates to the
desktop.  GPO, build your own Windows update server, run your own Yum/up2date server
for your Redhat boxes, whatever.

Conversely, if you don't have enough control to get updates out like that, you
don't have enough control to safely run a worm.

Somebody please tell Dave Aitel to put the crack pipe down.

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