3 Aug
2001
3 Aug
'01
6:52 p.m.
Ray Dillinger wrote:
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 mmotyka@lsil.com wrote:
I like the idea of making a remailer part of a worm but it might be just as well to make it an inherent part of a product since people will attempt to eradicate a worm.
And succeed. How many copies of "melissa" have you seen lately?
Coding a remailer, *and* coding a worm, for just one week's worth of play before they stomp it, is not worthwhile.
Bear
I think the "well behaved worm" prescribed by Tim might live longer since I read that as unobtrusive and generally benign but for some tolerable amount of bandwidth. Still, it would fall short of the effect you'd get if it were in a product that every teenager on the planet wanted to run.