Sunday, February 17

'Friendly Worms' to help Spread Software Fixes Faster

"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."

A good idea, isn't it? (Though the concept is quite old) but still it is worth a consideration. Imagine infecting yourself purposely by a worm and feeling good about it. :)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

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Hackhunt. The competition has both online and then onsite live hacking and
aims to choose the best ethical hacker in India. Are you game for it? In
case you missed out it has a first prize of INR 100,000 . Visit
www.hackerscouncil.org for details .