anti-virus virus

How about an anti-virus virus that spreads like a virus and connects to some
central DB and cleans up ones PC. It would help wipe out some of these virii
that are on machines that people do not disinfect

Just a thought.

PAM.

 

there was one that patched phpbb and I think theres been
one or two previous

 

The problem with this is the traffic and the implications of a program being
installed on one's PC without authorisation. Regardless of being a good
intention, it's not a good idea to install things without asking for
permission - this is the "spread like a virus" part of it.

Can you imagine the havoc if this thing goes into a corporate secure network
without the Admins knowing this thing is propagating? Worldwide the company
I work for has in excess of 60,000 PC. Can you imagine internal traffic,
misconfiguration and problems?

 

the traffic would diminish though as less and less machines were
vulnerable
I agree its not a good idea to be releasing 'anti-worms'
also, who's to say the 'patch' isnt going to cause more troubles for the
machines
Its a bit like the hackers on zone-h who go round hacking websites with
the intention of showing how vuln. a site is so admins will fix it.
Doing just as much damage as 'malicious' hackers

 

Nope. That's why it was just a thought. I have no idea about virii and PC
hardware and configs.

PAM.

 

Good idea anyway Pam.

We need people to think out of the box like this!

Sten

 

indeed, some patches are dodged due to hassles that they cause with
other software... we had to delay SP4 for win2k in the kitchen here at
work until the kitchen/meal management software was compatible.

 

Box? What box? I'm not in a box. Who said I was?
No. No, I can't take it any more. The voices are appearing again. go away!

GO AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!


Paranoid PAM.

 

Wasn't there an anti-virii virii out last year (supposed to fix blaster
iirc)which caused more problems than it fixed?

Rob

 

Hi there,

A pretty good one. There are some anti-virii virii I think, but not
as common as they used to be on old Amiga and Atari computers. I used
to 'infect' old Atari disks with a boot-sector anti-virus to prevent
a real virus from infecting them...

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Hmmm. I can see a huge loss of productivity due to employees not working
until food is supplied...

 

If someone/group was to do this, they could inform the anti-virus community
letting the people who actually create av products to stop it from infecting
their customers PC's by adding it to the list of known virii. Also do the av
updates...etc through one of the standard ports to the outside world. It
will then only end up infecting those computers that have no firewall and no
AV or badly updated AV PC's.

In other words. Any idiot still allowing their pc to infect many around the
world. These people.

One for the OSS perhaps

PAM.

 

heh, or patients not being able to take medication due to having no food.

 

Hi there,

Possibly. I'd imagine all the competing AV softs would have a field day
eradicating someones anti-virus virus...

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How about an anti-anti-virus virus that goes round
redirecting the anti-virus virus to a fake DB that
spreads itslef to everywhere.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

anti-virus virus = oxymoron.
what could it do to a db?
virii = urban myth. No such word.

Jay

 

And then of course an anti-anti-anti-virus virus to counteract your
anti-anti-virus virus.......

Reminds me of the move this year of the US baseball team that re-flagged
themselves from "The Anaheim Angels" to "The Los Angeles Angels of
Anaheim". Since "Los Angeles" translates to "the angels" in English,
the offical name of the team is "The The Angels Angels of Anaheim".

Jerry

 

Baron Howe's wife Elspeth Howe, a former Chair of the Broadcasting
Standards Commission, was made a life peer in 2001 as Baroness Howe of
Idlicote. As a result of her husband having received a knighthood and
later a peerage, and herself subsequently being made a peer in her own
right, she has been referred to as "Lady Lady Lady Howe".

 

The DB is basically base camp where the av gets more info of virii to seek
and destroy. an av update place if you will.

Really? Oh. Well, even though I am English, I was never really good at it at
school.

PAM.

 

Wasn't it the blaster worm that started out with this sort of intent?
It turned out to be one of the most costly pc security disasters of all
time.

The problem is the 'connect to some central DB' but. If you have
hundreds or thousands of PC's on a corporate network trying to do this
the result is the network goes down in smoke.