Re: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms

[Eduardo Tongson <propolice () gmail com>]

> Ja, patching your systems would seem to be a better idea ;)
>
> - -JP
>
> Roland Dobbins wrote:
> > Concur.  I respect Dave Aitel, but he's just dead wrong about this,  IMHO.
> >
> > On Oct 6, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> >
> > > Of course, this is not news to any of you who follow the
> > > "Daily Dave" mailing list.
> > >
> > > And for the record, I think it is a really bad idea.

Outbreak of rogue nematodes? not
I think the "worm" was stuck in there to make it trendy.
This way of progating fixes may still prove useful in controlled
environments. YMMV?

--ed

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