Comments on: Good versus Evil? - The reverse engineering of Kraken http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/05/01/title-tbc/ News and Updates on the Community. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:46:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tamlyn http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/05/01/title-tbc/#comment-3228 Tamlyn Tue, 06 May 2008 09:17:54 +0000 http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/05/01/title-tbc/#comment-3228 I seem to remember someone reverse engineering one of the big Windows viruses a few years ago (Blaster? Melissa?) so that it would patch the vulnerability in every machine it 'infected'. I think the ethical answer is "yes, you should cure the infected machines if you can" but the legal answer is "no, stay away because someone, somewhere will inevitably end up suing you". Unfortunately I expect the law will prevail. I seem to remember someone reverse engineering one of the big Windows viruses a few years ago (Blaster? Melissa?) so that it would patch the vulnerability in every machine it 'infected'. I think the ethical answer is "yes, you should cure the infected machines if you can" but the legal answer is "no, stay away because someone, somewhere will inevitably end up suing you". Unfortunately I expect the law will prevail.

]]> By: scootie http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/05/01/title-tbc/#comment-3085 scootie Fri, 02 May 2008 12:29:09 +0000 http://community.plus.net/blog/2008/05/01/title-tbc/#comment-3085 Some readers might also be interested to know that we located a handful of our own customers in the list of IP addresses identified by Amini and co. We’ve since contacted those customers to let them know. this seems the way to go if u want to avoid damaging peoples computers ect with out the knowledge of the owner ever knowing they where a zombie. one downside of cause at that is it would mean more humans in the chain than one person pressing the enter button and auto fixing every in the botnet. gd on u plus net for informing customers that they where infected. i bet all the other isp's in this country did'nt do the same. Some readers might also be interested to know that we located a handful of our own customers in the list of IP addresses identified by Amini and co.

We’ve since contacted those customers to let them know.

this seems the way to go if u want to avoid damaging peoples computers ect with out the knowledge of the owner ever knowing they where a zombie.

one downside of cause at that is it would mean more humans in the chain than one person pressing the enter button and auto fixing every in the botnet.

gd on u plus net for informing customers that they where infected. i bet all the other isp's in this country did'nt do the same.

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