full-disclosure - msblast DDos counter measures - a new worm to fix the problem

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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: msblast DDos counter measures - a new worm to
 fix the problem

Yeah, that's just what we need.  Then we get to explain to users that 
*some* worms are bad, and other worms are good.

NOT!!!

--On Friday, August 15, 2003 03:20:12 PM +0200 Daniel Rudolph 
<lists@...iel-rudolph.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i have an (maybe) new idea that worth discussing.
>
> What about writing a new worm based on the well know exploit - this worm
> should do something like:
>
> - disinfect the machine from the know variants of msblast
> - install the patch or at least inform the user that he should to that
> - spread out like every worm does ;-)

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu