Worm vs Worm - new worm hunts Lovsan

[Kellanved]

New Worm Installs Patches


A new worm takes a different twist by trying to repair systems infected by Blaster and patch the vulnerability it exploits, antivirus vendors said Monday.

The worm, called Nachi or MSBlast.D, tries to delete Blaster from some infected systems and install patches, according to Trend Micro. Last week's Blaster worm, also called MSBlast and Lovsan, infected hundreds of thousands of systems by exploiting a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) flaw in Microsoft Windows.

Nachi exploits the same flaw but can delete the MSBlast.exe file left by Blaster on machines running Windows 2000 and Windows XP and download Microsoft patches to fix the flaw, according to Trend Micro.

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http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=43977

Question is: is this a good thing? Is it okay to install patches without the user knowing?

[bpilgrim]

1. just wait till they start using 'artificial life' to 'stand gaurd'

i'm sure it will start getting real interesting then ;->
some british telcos i believe already use AL.

i think it is inevitable.

peace

[Karenina]

2. Prolly

NOT.