RE: aside: worm vs. worm?

["Aditya" <aditya () mail15 com>]

linux and bsd fans unite and write a worm that does! - and put ms out of buiness - just kidding!



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Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:06 PM
To: Darren Reed; Andrew J Homan
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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] aside: worm vs. worm?


imagine if the bug wiped out the infected computers'
harddrives. microsoft would be put out of business.

--- Darren Reed <avalon () caligula anu edu au> wrote:
> 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

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