Re: Badware update through P2P?

From: Fabien SPAGNOLO (spagno_fat_private)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 17:18:12 PDT

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel Arboi" <arboiat_private>

>
> What would happen if such a nasty piece of code used some P2P protocol
> to update itself? e.g. Gnutella or eDonkey? Has anybody seen such a
> "feature"?
>

Maybe it's already well known but here is an article written in 2000 by
Michal Zalewski called "writting internet worms for fun and profit" which
describes such a worm.

The network invovled would be a kind of P2P network called "wormnet" in the
paper.


http://www.tla.ch/TLA/NEWS/2000sec/20000512Zalewski.htm


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