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 · 2 answers · asked by Rich 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Yeah I did kinda think it would be quite big if it did all that. Perhaps if it did it in phases: for two months, have it download some sort of free software firewall from the net for it's hosts, distributing the downloads over time so as not to kill the server hosting the firewall. Then another phase: have it download an AV and remove worms. You get the picture.
2007-03-18 15:02:39 · update #1
@Loyal B:
That doesn't make a difference: if it became the dominent OS then it would become the prime target for worms, viruses (not "virii", that's colloquial and not strictly a real word). Even just something to force a lightweight software firewall onto the zombie machines would do; when Microsoft released SP2 for XP, the firewall cut down a lot of problems for non-tech-savvy people.
2007-03-18 15:05:41 · update #2
Actually, it would kill traffic because of the size of that worm with all the software on it, but that's cool.
The way to stop it is by basically shooting people who don't take care of their systems. The other day I had a guy come up to me and tell me this (not joking) :
"I have had my computer for 3 years and I never installed spyware or anti-virus on it and now it has some kind of virus. Kind you give me something that will get rid of them?"
wow, just wow. He argued with me about how he didn't ever need anti-virus. I wish I had a beating stick right then.
2007-03-18 14:59:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We dont need that, because there is open source software..for free at www.kubuntu.org. It has at least 114,000 fewer virii that attack it than windows.
2007-03-18 15:00:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋