> "Increased ICMP traffic" Wow. If a virus propergated like this on today's networks, would such traffic event make a noticable dent in the available bandwidth

> "Increased ICMP traffic" Wow. If a virus propergated like this on today's networks, would such traffic event make a noticable dent in the available bandwidth? Anyways, I hadn't heard of this virus - it's super neat. Patching its own infection vector and even explicitly removing an existing virus from the target machine... The article loathes it for how overtly it affects machines (forced restart to apply an update) and networks (congestion), but the work it attempted to do was decidedly good. Sounds to me like it worked well, but had poor execution in accounting for the network effects it would have. (I doubt it was rigorously tested in a prod environment ;) ) If anything, I'd see this as a case study that this kind of offense-as-defense strategy has the potential to work... Its just nobody wants to take responsibility to do so.