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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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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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