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16:21 - CUHMLHFWS Covert Ops
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60081,00.html
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Damien Del Russo forwards me this guffaw-inducing little gem from the first days of the SoBig storm:
After removing its predecessor MSBlaster, the new worm, which -- just to add to the confusion -- has been dubbed WORM_MSBLAST.D, Nachi and Welchia by various security and antivirus firms, then politely patches the machine against the vulnerability that MSBlaster exploited.
"My computer hasn't been right since it was infected last week," said Nadine Lovell, a Manhattan textile designer. "This afternoon it's working perfectly again."
A scan of Lovell's system confirmed her machine had indeed been infected with the new Blaster variant.
"Thank you, worm!" said Lovell.
Innovative, and amusing-- but somehow it doesn't comfort me that this, the computing equivalent of an entrepreneur innovating his way toward the American Dream, is a lot messier and uglier than Apple's solution, which is to trickle software updates to your machine in the background (if you request it to) and prompt you whenever there's an update ready to be applied. Clean. Centralized. Secure. Friendly.
Makes me feel like such a statist.
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