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Date: Mon May 16 03:28:15 2005 From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: RE: Bening Worms (Cosmin Stejerean) On Sun, 15 May 2005 20:33:06 CDT, "Stejerean, Cosmin" said: > regular patching. There might be some cases when writing a quick "worm" to > patch rogue machines automatically might be better (especially to patch > laptops connected to a wireless hotspot, etc) but since it is risky it Nope.. You don't *know* that a worm will or won't actually hit that vulnerable laptop. It *probably* will, given enough time. Or you can just have an attack-trained DHCP server, and *know* that laptop will get fixed when it rears its head on the network. ;) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20050515/35054202/attachment.bin
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