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'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes

Posted by Zonk on from the perfect-way-to-make-a-rogue-ai dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft researchers are working out the perfect strategies for worms to spread through networks. Their goal is to distribute software patches and other friendly information via virus, reducing load on servers. This raises the prospect of worm races — deploying a whitehat worm to spread a fix faster than a new attacking worm can reach vulnerable machines."

5 of 306 comments (clear)

  1. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Microsoft will install Linux for you automatically? Without you even having to consent? How nice of them!

  2. My Tin foil hat part of my brain says... by blahplusplus · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Call me crazy but I do not see this as a good thing.

  3. Re:Prior Art (oblig) by sm62704 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In Soviet Russia, worm patches YOU!

    Hot Grits

    But does it run Lin OUCH!

    Imagine a beowlf cluster of OW! OW! OK I'LL STOP!!!

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    mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
  4. Re:Prior Art (oblig) by Guinness2702 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "But does it run Lin OUCH!

    Imagine a beowlf cluster of OW! OW! OK I'LL STOP!!!"

    You're new here aren'....ok ok, I didn't even take my coat off!

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  5. Re:Prior Art by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Robot man: "The human was impervious to our most powerful magnetic fields, yet in the end he succumbed to a harmless sharpened stick. Heh heh heh."
    Robot woman: "I'm just glad the nightmare is over."
    Robot man: "It'll never be over, Wendy. Even now, humans are lurking in our playgrounds...our (?)...perhaps even our movie theaters!"