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Re: aside: worm vs. worm?
From: "akbara" <tzu () plepstudios com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 04:14:41 -0700
I'm sure they have plenty of bandwidth to spare, yes extra bandwidth costs more money.. but the company does make over a billion dollars a month, and has 49 billion in cash reserve. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Reed" <avalon () caligula anu edu au> To: "Andrew J Homan" <homa0016 () umn edu> Cc: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] aside: worm vs. worm?
In some mail from Andrew J Homan, sie said:It seems that between the time dcom.c first starting popping up around
the
internet and today, there was ample time for someone to write and
release a
worm designed to patch infected systems and remove any sign of itself. Given that on the 16th of this month windowsupdate.com will be DDOSed,
does
anyone else see this as an opportunity for a war of worms with windowsupdate.com at stake? Would anyone consider releasing a patching worm on their own network if they knew it wouldn't spread to the rest of the internet or is there a downside to this notion which I'm not
realizing?
You know, if the DDoS was targetted at someone innocent, I might be more sympathetic towards the problem of a web site being DDoS'd. But it's Microsoft's own web site that is being targeted and it is through their own bug that it is being made possible. As much as they would like to point the finger at others for making the code available to do it, if their software didn't have the bug, it would not be possible it all. Hrm, I don't really want to start _THAT_ discussion again, but I don't think you will find much, if any, sympathy for Microsoft being targetted by this worm. They're a large, rich, monopoly of a company. Do they really deserve any nice sympathy at all ? I suspect I'm not alone in these feelings. Darren _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- aside: worm vs. worm? Andrew J Homan (Aug 11)
- RE: aside: worm vs. worm? Arian J. Evans (Aug 11)
- Re: aside: worm vs. worm? Nick FitzGerald (Aug 11)
- RE: aside: worm vs. worm? gml (Aug 11)
- RE: aside: worm vs. worm? gml (Aug 12)
- Re: aside: worm vs. worm? Darren Reed (Aug 12)
- Re: aside: worm vs. worm? akbara (Aug 12)
- Re: aside: worm vs. worm? Joey (Aug 12)
- RE: aside: worm vs. worm? Mike (Aug 12)
- RE: aside: worm vs. worm? Andrew Thomas (Aug 12)
- RE: aside: worm vs. worm? Darren Bennett (Aug 12)
- RE: aside: worm vs. worm? Andrew Thomas (Aug 13)
- Re: aside: worm vs. worm? Stephen Clowater (Aug 12)
- RE: aside: worm vs. worm? Mike Fratto (Aug 12)
- Re: aside: worm vs. worm? Stephen Clowater (Aug 12)
- RE: aside: worm vs. worm? Geo. (Aug 12)
- RE: aside: worm vs. worm? Aditya (Aug 13)