[87198] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Dec 9 14:03:32 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: sgorman1@gmu.edu, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: (Your message of "Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:03:14 GMT.")
<Pine.GSO.4.58.0512091602160.20032@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:02:59 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <Pine.GSO.4.58.0512091602160.20032@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>, "Christ
opher L. Morrow" writes:
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>On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 sgorman1@gmu.edu wrote:
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>> Thought folks might find this interesting
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>> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8403
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>> Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet, New Scientist
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>> Excerpts: A cure for computer viruses that spreads in a viral fashion
>> could immunise the internet, even against pests that travel at lightning
>> speed, a mathematical study reveals.
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>I think they call this 'welchia'... I don't recall it doing all that many
>'good' things, unless 'raising customer traffic rates' qualifies as
>'good'.
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Besides, it's *unauthorized*. I don't want random strangers deciding
when my machine should be patched. I think, in this forum, we all know
that patches can have bad side effects.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
