What I mean is, why doesn't someone write a virus that does good? It could auto-run and disable all of the cheesy security holes that MS hasn't fixed yet. It could spread like a worm, and just go on a rampage fixing problems.
Why must virii always be bad?
I can see where you're coming from, but I'm not sure how it can be good if it's running on people's systems without their permission?
If someone wants to distribute a fix for something then they should be able to make it downloadable, and they do.
This makes me think of those annoying ******VIRUS WARNING****** chain letters that people keep sending me when I know it's not a threat, except instead of just warning me it would start meddling with files on my system without my permission, and then send itself to everyone I know - through me.
The whole thing that makes a virus bad in the general sense is that it changes things without anyone's permission. If you start running around randomly patching security holes on systems you don't own, you could just as easily damage them and suddenly you'd be just as much a criminal as an ordinary virus writer, and very very liable.
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What I mean is, why doesn't someone write a virus that does good? It could auto-run and disable all of the cheesy security holes that MS hasn't fixed yet. It could spread like a worm, and just go on a rampage fixing problems.
Why must virii always be bad?
I can see where you're coming from, but I'm not sure how it can be good if it's running on people's systems without their permission?
If someone wants to distribute a fix for something then they should be able to make it downloadable, and they do.
This makes me think of those annoying ******VIRUS WARNING****** chain letters that people keep sending me when I know it's not a threat, except instead of just warning me it would start meddling with files on my system without my permission, and then send itself to everyone I know - through me.
The whole thing that makes a virus bad in the general sense is that it changes things without anyone's permission. If you start running around randomly patching security holes on systems you don't own, you could just as easily damage them and suddenly you'd be just as much a criminal as an ordinary virus writer, and very very liable.