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echo: nthelp
to: Mike N.
from: Geo.
date: 2007-02-18 10:47:02
subject: Re: Writing a worm

From: "Geo." 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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>>Have you seen the recent threads on the security lists about web servers
>>being compromised and used by spammers? That's not happening via browser
>>exploit or social engineering. It's PHP worms and Windows worms, fully
>>automated, new version every week.
>
>   I was thinking of client side only with my 90%+ stats.   Servers are a
> whole new ballgame with PHP, SQL injection and XSS.

Ah, definition of worm, no user required to infect a machine. Most client
side infections are trojans. Some of the trojans have worm components which
infect local file shares and such but typically they still require a user
to actually activate the new infection. A true worm spreads with no user
action required.

If we are talking about trojans then I agree with you because the user has
replaced the need for scripting and all the other little tricks.

Geo.

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