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Subject: Re: Ethical/Theoretical Question
From: Michael W. McKenney (mckenneyMED.UNC.EDU)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 06:45:37 CDT

    As I've been reading through some of the responses to this thread, I've
been a little surprised that more folks wouldn't be interested in an idea
like this. Sure, I agree that sending something like this as a beneficial
sort of virus wouldn't be too good of an idea for many of the reasons
already discussed, but I don't see any reason why an idea like this can't
work on a smaller scale. In the course of an average day, I'll see and
speak to around 50-60 Wintel users. Why shouldn't I help them?
    Anyways, I've already sent around a small script (to a group of about 40
of my users) that does a pretty good job of stopping any *.vbs, *.js, etc,
from running w/o permission. I know that many of those 40 users sent that
script on to friends and family as "trusted", who ran it on their machines
and probably passed it on to friends of theirs. Now what if we all did
something like this? Makes a pretty sizeable dent in the number of machines
affected by a malicious VBS.
Just my .02
Mike McKenney