On Sat, 14 May 2005 11:42:18 CDT, "Stejerean, Cosmin" said: > You would probably only do something like this in case of an emergency. > In most cases there are a lot better ways to patch management than spreading > a worm of your own. Describe an emergency scenario where writing and testing a worm to do your network is superior to deploying either a honeypot back-attack-and-patch or centralized scan-and-patch service? > Perhaps the best example of how this was used and why it should be done this > way unless it's an emergency is the problem with the Xerox researches in > 1978 that used worms to automate tasks on their network. The code was > corrupted and over 200 machines crashed. I think you meant "Why it *shouldn't* be done this way"?
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