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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 2008-02-19
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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