Blaster Worm Blasted?

[lostcarpark]

How we laughed. Unless our PCs were affected, that is (mine wasn't, but I know several people who were). Now, it seems someone has written a worm which takes advantage of the same security hole, but its purpose is to remove Blaster and download the Microsoft patch.

I'm not sure I approve, but I must admit it's a clever bit of thinking.

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

It's a fun idea, not original and very dangerous, but fun.

Not original because I had a "virus" for my Atari ST back in 1988/89-ish that would automatically overwrite the boot sector on any floppy that was put in the drive, thereby overwriting any boot sector viruses ... sadly I put in a PC floppy disk with some important files and it trashed the FAT table on the floppy (since Atari and PC formats were similar, but not the same) and it took me time with a sector copier and a hex editor to get most of those files back again (they had the original images for A Fandom Simpler[1] among other things)

And dangerous because it would take a good evil coder a very short time to add a trojan and/or a back door or something similar to that beneficial download and from there on you'd be infecting people with what everyone would assume was a "good" virus but which would turn evil on a particular date, or format your disk, or open a port for a remote machine to connect etc.