, 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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This is basically building something virus writers to turn against the network and walk way leaving no evidence that can be simple used in court.
Note some worms even killed them selfs out due to a fluke damage. The reverse could just as simple happen. If it has the means to self replicate it can be harmful.
Nothing can perfectly protect against this happening. Now system admin scanning all clients connected from a controlled server could do close to the same thing but with risk controlled.
The replication bit is completely risky.
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