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msblast.d and a review of defensive worms Aug 18 2003 05:42PM
David J. Meltzer (djm intrusec com) (1 replies)

Re: msblast.d and a review of defensive worms Aug 18 2003 10:50PM
Nicholas Weaver (nweaver CS berkeley edu) (1 replies)

Re: msblast.d and a review of defensive worms Aug 21 2003 05:07PM
Nicholas Weaver (nweaver CS berkeley edu)

I think this article (posted on the Nanog list) should be the final
nail in the coffin on "defensive worms".

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0819navy.html

Reportedly 3/4s of the Navy Marines Corps Internet was unusable
because of the "beneficial" Welchia (patching RPC) worm. Network
operations is at least partially outsourced to EDS, but the article
doesn't state who is responsible for administering the machines.

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Nicholas C. Weaver nweaver (at) cs.berkeley (dot) edu [email concealed]

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