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• Warhol Worms (Score:2)

  by ziggy (25)

  Have you heard about Warhol worms [berkeley.edu]? A craftily written piece of malware could wreak some serious havoc in about 15 minutes. 2 hours? That's a blessing; you have enough time to notice the attack and formulate a response. (presuming you have some good heuristics in your mail filters. :-)
  • Re:Warhol Worms (Score:1)

    by Matts (1087) on 2001.12.04 13:56 (#2108) Journal

    Yes, we heard of warhol worms. It's all good business for us though, because if one of those breaks out, we'll still stop it heuristically (we offer a 100% anti-virus guarantee, with good reason).
    
    I think many sysadmins out there will think differently about 2 hours being a blessing :-) Remember it's not 2 hours to propogate, it's 2 hours to reach critical mass, which means that it's already infected enough computers to reach critical mass. Oh, and this one deletes antivirus software too, which is kinda funny :-)
    
    Anyway, viruses bad, perl good. Perl good at stopping viruses, and all that.

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    • Re:Warhol Worms (Score:1)

      by chaoticset (2105)

      Wouldn't that indirectly make it anti-anti-virus software? (I've actually seen the term counter-counter-measures in use, so I don't think it's impossible to see the word anti-anti-virus.) :)

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