, SecurityFocus 2003-08-14
The Blaster worm has infected hundreds of thousands of Windows machines, shut down the Maryland state DMV, put network administrators on overtime, crashed countless consumer's home computers, and on Saturday it will attempt a denial-of-service attack on Microsoft's Windows Update site. But that doesn't make it all bad.
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The Bright Side of Blaster
2003-08-15
mark (at) challender (dot) com [email concealed] (3 replies)
mark (at) challender (dot) com [email concealed] (3 replies)
Malicious attackers *HATE* worms, because worms kill the vulnerability. Anyone out there complaining about msblast or other worms (especially the worms that patch systems!) are idiots. If it weren't for all this panic mongering, attackers would still be enjoying the thousands of home users at comcast/aol/msn/etc and be growing their botnets to the high five digits. But as it is now, all those users are protected by filtering rules.
Seriously, worms piss off the hacking community big time. This is one of the best things that could have happened to Microsoft - they probably pushed this one out themselves (and made it intentionally crappy to not draw suspicious) because this worm helps them more than anyone!
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