Patricia Viana wrote:
Hi, Everyone!
I've just read about this worm at Symantec site
Could this be considered a "well-intended" virus?!?!
OK, it does some damage. like installing a small web server and
overwriting html files for a screwed up page
But after all, it does install some f
It's actually a well-established idea - using viruses to patch vulnerable
machines.
It's not done to help you. Sorry. It's done to protect the Internet from
your machine. If your machine is vulnerable, it can be used by anyone to
send spam or viruses around the internet.
"Patching" viruses are
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 6:54 pm, russ wrote:
> Why are you re-posting this message. Again ... No virus or worm is
> good.
I suspect this was just the Exchange server barfing not so quietly to itself.
They do that from time to time, poor things
Antony.
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Why are you re-posting this message. Again ... No virus or worm is
good.
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On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:49, Patricia Viana wrote:
> Could this be considered a "well-intended" virus?!?!
I work for a school system with about 2000 computers on our network.
Welchia Shut down our network for 4 days until we perfected a way to
squash it. (Norton was no help at all BTW)
Perso
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:49, Patricia Viana wrote:
> OK, it does some damage. like installing a small web server
> and overwriting html files for a screwed up page
>
> But after all, it does install some fixes and tries to remove the
> worms MyDoom.A and MyDoom.B!!
It's probably
There are a couple worms out there now that attempt
to connect to infected machines of the particular virus/trojan its programmed to
look for and try to remove it.
Welchia was a worm that caused more traffic than
the offender or at least as much traffic making it as bad on internet traffic
