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Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today

  • From: Jay Hennigan
  • Date: Fri Aug 22 15:03:22 2003

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Owen DeLong wrote:

>
> OK... Maybe I'm smoking crack here, but, if they have the list of 20
> machines,
> wouldn't it make more sense to replace them with honey-pots that download
> code to remove SOBIG instead of just disabling them?
>
> Let's use the virus against itself.  At this point, I think that's a
> legitimate
> countermeasure.

Start coding, you've got twelve minutes.


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