Re: BCP suggestion, port 25 control RE: [Asrg] BCP suggestion: port-b locking by ISPs

[Gadi Evron <ge at linuxbox.org>]

> Finally there is the ethical side - and the bottome line there is simply
> that this is unacceptable behaviour.

And a couple of things you did not mention..

Putting aside the ethical issues (just for a short moment) there is also 
the issue of a virus still being malicious software. Why? Not getting 
into term and definition arguments - it does something that the user did 
not ask for, on the user's machine.

Say we don't care... controlling replication of malicious code is 
extremely difficult. When attempted before, it caused the falling of 
entire networks, just last year.

Also.. who said viruses are bug free or well written? A programming 
error of some sort.. say.. even a buffer overflow could be disastrous.

And how the heck is someone REALLY supposed to control how, when and 
where a single sample spreads. It never worked. It has been attempted 
more than just a few times.

Add to that the fact that it doesn't actually solve the problem, and you 
still haven't covered everything of why it is a bad thing.

Back to ethical - writing viruses is simply a no-no.

	Gadi.

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