Re: PhD Topic suggestions

Fridrik Skulason <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:26:36 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.security.virus.openantivirus.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> Yes, it is for this reason alone that this wont work.  

Not *alone*.  Another reason would be that anyone stupid enough to "update" machines
without authorization would be in violation of the laws in many places.

> Now it would be nice to have a worm that could identify infected or vulnerable 
> computers and inform the user with an email or something and maybe shutting down
> the computer but that would be exploited by spammers at the very least.

It would not be "nice".  It would be incredibly idiotic.

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Fridrik Skulason   Frisk Software International   phone: +354-540-7400
Author of F-PROT   E-mail: [email protected]       fax:   +354-540-7401


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