New Worm spreading

**mad1** · August 19th, 2003, 01:03 PM

'Good' worm hits computers "

"The new so-called good worm, dubbed "Welchia" or "Nachi," is similar to Blaster, but it purports to patch the hole Blaster exploited to enter into computers in the first place and tries to clean up after Blaster if the computer is infected with it."

CNN

**Droppyale** · August 19th, 2003, 01:37 PM

good worm... lol

funny.

**vass0922** · August 19th, 2003, 01:50 PM

it would be better if it didnt' reboot the machine afterwards lol

although serves 'em right for not patching

lol

(yes I'm kidding.... mostly)

**GroundZero3** · August 19th, 2003, 01:53 PM

can we look at this as sort of a linux way of patching things for windows?

very interesting worm i must say

**Christian-Comp** · August 19th, 2003, 01:57 PM

Glinda asks Welchia 'Are you a good worm or a bad worm?' Welchia says that she is not a worm at all, announcing that worms are 'mean and ugly'. Glinda states that only bad worms are ugly.

But you killed the wicked worm of the west!

**Lemon** · August 19th, 2003, 01:57 PM

Perhaps someone at microsoft wrote this one

**Urban_Squrill** · August 19th, 2003, 01:58 PM

Thats cool

**NeoStarO1** · August 19th, 2003, 01:59 PM

Originally posted by Lemon
Perhaps someone at microsoft wrote this one

That was my intial thought as well. And they are just saying its slowing down traffic or something as a CMA situation so it doesn't come back onto them.

**novadragoon** · August 19th, 2003, 02:01 PM

Originally posted by Lemon
Perhaps someone at microsoft wrote this one

HA! no one there has the programming skills

**Optimus Prime** · August 19th, 2003, 02:44 PM

"A good worm... lol"

Worms were actually intentionally made to be good, like this worm that fixes what the blaster destroyed.

**Mike** · August 19th, 2003, 04:58 PM

Wow what's with all the worms?!

At least this is a good one.

**cbuddha42** · August 19th, 2003, 07:03 PM

lol yea microsoft should have made this one. they release a patch and then everyone points and screams at them when they get blaster. well guess what buddy if you had patched you wouldn't have a problem. think of it as manditory patching

**skuz** · August 19th, 2003, 08:08 PM

Good, bad, they all break their neck on my Linux firewall.

It was a bit more worrying at work, we are well protected behind a good firewall, but a few of our users travel with laptops, most unpatched since they were gone before the worms arrived. At least if they catch the good one, we won't have to worry about it.