Just reading through how easily this worm (RPC/DCOM/MSBlast) is spreading, and how widespread it is, and the potential number of infected systems - do some of you lot think its feasible that sometime in the future someone will release a worm that DOES completely wipe the hard disks or do something equally nasty to its host AFTER sending itself on to 'x' recipients? a worm like that, although i'm hardly qualified to give an opinion, could seriously affect a very large quantity of home users - the majority of whom never bother updating their OS from the day its installed from the CD. Myself, i find a worm that is able to spread this easily as rather..disturbing. Does anyone else predict (drum roll and overreacting music please..) a "doomsday" where nearly every PC running windows (which, lets face it, is the predominant OS out there at the moment) thats connected to the internet gets taken offline, hard drives wiped? information loss would be terrible ;p
thoughts? Tom Russell. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
