Vigilante virus protects you against malware attacks, quotes Richard Stallman

[lxskllr]

Symantec has discovered malware that infects routers and Internet of Things devices, then cleans out any existing malware and locks the devices down against future attacks.

http://www.techhive.com/article/298...-malware-attacks-quotes-richard-stallman.html

 

[Elixer]

Heh, while funny, not so sure I approve of this kind of tactic, unless the fools don't bother to fix their routers.

 

[MongGrel]

very skeptical to go near it....

As it is doing things in the background also obviously.

 

[John Connor]

Heh, while funny, not so sure I approve of this kind of tactic, unless the fools don't bother to fix their routers.

Would you belive I get connections to my website's from people's worm infected Linksys E1200's all the time? The script I run blocks it, but I see this almost every day in the logs. The worm is the Moon worm and I made a thread here so that people would know to update their firmware. Most don't do that. They just expect the router to function. I'm glad I switched to DD-WRT about 7 years ago already.

 

[lxskllr]

I give it lukewarm support. Running arbitrary code on your gear isn't good, and bad coding can open up new holes, but it's exploiting a vulnerability, and fixing it. Better it, than something less nice.