Worries over "good worms" rise again

Worries over "good worms" rise again
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2008-02-18

A scientific paper discussing theories of information propagation reopened the debate on beneficial worms last week, after one of the authors -- a researcher at Microsoft -- told reporters that the company could benefit from making software updates spread more like computer worms.

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Worries over "good worms" rise again 2008-02-18
Anonymous

Old story :)

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/347

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Worries over "good worms" rise again 2008-02-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

the Link "ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2007-82.pdf" can not be opened. Where can I find that whitepaper? Thanks,...

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Re: Worries over "good worms" rise again 2008-03-07
Anonymous

It's there...I looked at it. VERY IMPRESSIVE. Try again...

ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2007-82.pdf

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=TR-2007-82.pdf...

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"White Worms" I wish they would stay DEAD! 2008-02-19
Nicholas Weaver

Or at least they would cite the "White Worms don't Work" argument!

http://usenix.net/publications/login/2006-12/pdfs/weaver.pdf

is dan ellis and myself...

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Worries over "good worms" rise again 2008-02-19
assurbanipal

There are no good worms. Micro$oft should rather focus on ameliorating their poor software before elaborating exotic theories. C'mon! Would you appreciate such a worm? Especially when you know it's written by the M$ folks?...

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Worries over "good worms" rise again 2008-02-19
Anonymous

This is just a scientific paper.

No need to buzz around that.

Where are the good infos? You guys are lazy or what!?...

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Missing the all important fact. 2008-02-19
oiaohm

Damaged in transport. Good Worm turns bad due to damage. How would you prove it was intentional or just bad ram or bad harddrive or something bad network.

This is basically building something virus writers to turn against the network and walk way leaving no evidence that can be simple used in co...

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Worries over "good worms" rise again 2008-02-20
ElTino

Can you imagine some hacker trying to compromise these 'good worms'? I certainly can!

I can see how perpetrators of attacks are converting them to the DARK SIDE and using them to spread even more malicious content.

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Worries over "good worms" rise again 2008-02-24
Ichinin

1. Anyone remember "Max Vision"?

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/05/44007

2. Microsoft and their afilliates cannot be trusted to write such a "good worm":

http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/txt/rfp2k02.txt

A worm is a worm, regardless of its payload.

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Worries over "good worms" rise again 2008-03-07
Anonymous

I attempted to get this message to the 4 researchers...hopefully it finds them well. Otherwise here's food for thought for the critics: I was just thinking about this more and maybe if they described it differently it wouldn?t be so bad. It would need really good and TRUSTWORTHY / secure / reliabl...

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