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

[Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () cisco com>]

Any kind of scanning/push model has a high potential to cause  
collateral damage . . . a pull model or a bounded client/server model  
is preferable, for these reasons.


On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Eduardo Tongson wrote:

> > Ja, patching your systems would seem to be a better idea ;)
> >
> > - -JP
> >
> > Roland Dobbins wrote:
> >
> > > Concur.  I respect Dave Aitel, but he's just dead wrong about  
> > > this,  IMHO.
> > >
> > > On Oct 6, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Of course, this is not news to any of you who follow the
> > > > "Daily Dave" mailing list.
> > > >
> > > > And for the record, I think it is a really bad idea.
>
> 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?
>
> --ed
>
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