RE: The 'good worm' from HP

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

Allan is right. I didn't notice people calling it a worm. It is suppose
to be a patch management product that will actually use the expolit hole
to patch the box. It is a controlled problem and should be used only on
computers control by the corporation that owns the software.

But is it still a good idea...I don't think so. Exploiting stuff
sometimes crashes systems and could corrupt stuff. Why do it that way,
when you could just apply a patch directly. 

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I really don't KNOW what HP is doing, but I would assume that it's just
a 'product' and not a worm. Meaning, you can probably setup 1 system on
your network that scans a specified range (for example only your
workstations if you're worried about your servers getting autopatched).
So any machines that are somehow not picked up by your normal patch
management system (maybe it's not a member of your domain ..) will still
get patched. I also assume they will not 'infect' any machines to use
them to scan further (ie worm behaviour). I'm not saying this is all
good or bad, but I was reading this thread and it seems you are all
expecting HP to just let this loose on the internet.

Allan


[snip]

I hope the HP folk have read it and thought very carefully about all
this...  (Sadly the media reports are too "light and fluffy" to make
anything sensible of what HP is really proposing.) [/snip]



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