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