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MS researchers designing the "perfect worm" 1

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An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft researchers are working out the perfect strategies for worms to spread through networks — with a view to distributing software patches and other friendly information this way and reducing load on servers. This raises the prospect of worm races — deploying a whitehat worm to spread a fix faster than a new attacking worm can reach vulnerable machines."
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  • Does this not strike anyone else as an incredibly stupid idea? Current worms block attempts to be removed. a) why would new worms not block this method as well as the other methods and B) since this would be a new "feature" what would prevent a malicious attacker from exloiting the friendly worm framework?

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