How could we have let the Internet become such a dangerous place? Why are people stupid enough to put totally unprotected machines out on the internet to become zombies, under the control of various hackers, or to become infected with worms and the like? Being behind a NAT router (and being somewhat of a tech-nerd), I am fairly safe, my software firewall only picking up about 20 unsolicited attempts to get to me every day. But after forwarding one port for quarter of an hour, my software firewall picks up over 3800 unsolicited attempts to get to me, and there is literally at least one attack per second at the moment. Wouldn't it be a good idea for someone to write a worm that infects people, cleans their systems of any harmful worms, patches as many security problems as it can, installs a software firewall, spreads itself for a bit then deletes itself? Wouldn't this sort out a lot of the internet's problems? It would kill spambots, speed up traffic, and make things more efficient.
2007-03-18
14:52:06
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Rich
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