Researchers Tout New Network Worm Weapon 101
coondoggie writes "Can Internet worms be thwarted within minutes of their infection? Researchers at Ohio State University believe they can. The key, researchers found, is for software to monitor the number of scans that machines on a network send out. When a machine starts sending out too many scans — a sign that it has been infected — administrators should take it off line and check it for viruses. In a nutshell, the researchers developed a model that calculated the probability that a virus would spread, depending on the maximum number of scans allowed before a machine was taken off line.'The difficulty was figuring out how many scans were too many,' researchers said."
SOP - Standard operating procedure (Score:5, Funny)
There is the alternative though...
http://xkcd.com/416/ [xkcd.com]
Seriously Useless (Score:2, Funny)
sysadmin: $max_scans_allowed = 10;
worm: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 10;
sysadmin: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 9;
worm: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 9;
sysadmin: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 8;
worm: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 8;
sysadmin: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 7;
worm: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 7;
sysadmin: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 6;
worm: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 6;
sysadmin: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 5;
worm: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 5;
sysadmin: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 4;
worm: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 4;
sysadmin: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 3;
worm: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 3;
sysadmin: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 2;
worm: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 2;
sysadmin: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 1;
worm: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 1;
sysadmin: sh1t! $max_scans_allowed = 0;
Unplug the internet, no communications allowed.
Re:Neat (Score:2, Funny)
But, I dont see how this would work (such as you mentioned BitTorrent, et al) for the 'public' unless ISP's starting DoS-ing their customers, or sending them direct messages...
Suspicious Amount Of Traffic Detected, Disconnect From Internet?
(Cancel) (Allow)
Which would mean more crap running in the background, or another expoitable access point, similar to "Messenger Service" on Windows... Oh great fun.
Re:And now that... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Seriously Useless (Score:3, Funny)
If I am in a position of authority over a network, (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well? (Score:3, Funny)
Blinking Lights (Score:3, Funny)