AsRockwait till they do it and some one else infects there file and that mofo spreads around.

panchomanoh of course.. ms built a virus thats meant to infect windows computers and the antivirus guys will of course put the virus on the whitelist.. peeps just mod the virus and they've git the ultimate windows hack

zekrahminatorMicrosoft had a rather clever idea. Why not use the worm virus for a useful purpose, such as updating Windows? Microsoft, for a while, was researching a way to make the worm code more efficient, and was going to put it to good use. That way, important security updates could spread just as quickly as viruses, if not quicker, considering that Microsoft's best were in the study. However, this idea was received about as well as the Giants victory in Super Bowl XLII. Some people cheered, but most people cried foul. Using a worm to spread things like Windows Updates would be a massive invasion of privacy, does not allow a user to say no to an update and would totally bungle up any attempt to uninstall or interrupt installation. What's worse is what would happen if a bad guy got their hands on the enhanced worm code.

Microsoft, upon hearing what users thought of a worm-based security patch, decided against using it. If the new worm they've developed will have any benevolent use, we certainly haven't heard of it yet.

Source: PC World

imperialreignCOOL! MS will do all the legwork for the malware writer's! I'm sure they've been in need of a decent beer/pizze break as it is, what with all the malware currently floating the i-net.

Y'know . . . they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions . . .

Thankfully, MS cleared up that brain-fart they had and decided against it.

Still deserving of the :slap:, though.

KreijI think it would be a great idea, if the user could control the worm. I would love to throw and update on my system and have it work it's way through the network computers.
The key would have to be that the administrator could give parameters to the worm update so that it had to follow strict "rules of engagement" (ie. IP address range, OS version limitations, etc.).
Once all the parameter rules were completed, the worm would self-destruct.

But the key would have to be that the user launches the worm to the intended targets, not Microsoft.

imperialreignI could see with this kind of a program could reallt help out network technicians and all - but any release of the source code would still find their way into the bowels of the net

panchomanoh of course.. ms built a virus thats meant to infect windows computers and the antivirus guys will of course put the virus on the whitelist.. peeps just mod the virus and they've git the ultimate windows hack

eidairaman1sounds like I Am Legend, Use a Virus to Rapidly Kill Cancer and guess what it does, causes sever body damage (UV Sensitive Skin, no Consciousness, Rabid Behavior), sure the same will follow if MS attempts this, if they do they most users will End up switching to alternative OS to avoid such crap.

eidairaman1sounds like I Am Legend, Use a Virus to Rapidly Kill Cancer and guess what it does, causes sever body damage (UV Sensitive Skin, no Consciousness, Rabid Behavior), sure the same will follow if MS attempts this, if they do they most users will End up switching to alternative OS to avoid such crap.

btarunrWhy does it have to become Microsoft's moral responibility to spoon-feed users with updates? First they make a mucho donut with a gazillion pores and call it a tyre and later run after users with spoonfuls of Gorilla glue. :shadedshu

I sort of like the way Ubuntu keeps the system update. It just tells the user an update exists and could be installed, else there's just an orange tray icon which isn't a big deal really.

KreijIt seems to me that MS was looking at using code that already came from the bowels of the net. Kind of like genetically modifying a (real) virus to put it to good use.

For instance, hospitals labs her in the US, have successfully used the rubella virus to target cancer cells. They genetically changed the virus' "tag DNA" so that it hunted down, attached to, and destroyed cancer cells instead of the normal human cells that it normally goes after.

I always thought that ther would come a time when people would be writing "good" software viruses that hunted down and destroyed the bad ones.

HAsn't happened yet, though