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I was trying to take "advertising" out of the equation because we were no longer talking about the ethics of the megabox business model but rather what constitu
by jbigelow76 14y ago
I was trying to take "advertising" out of the equation because we were no longer talking about the ethics of the megabox business model but rather what constituted "malware".
- icebraining 14y agoI know. As I said, Nessus can and is used to attack third-party servers, but it's not considered malware, and it's in fact a commercial product openly used by companies and governments (like the US gov). I've never seen a definition of malware that includes hack or DOS tools.
- jbigelow76 14y ago"I've never seen a definition of malware that includes hack or DOS tools." I did a quick search on "stuxnet malware" and the articles linked to in the third and fourth results (by Computer World, and Christian Science Monitor respectively) both call stuxnet malware. It's not a very old word, I don't see why its definition can't evolve or change over time.
- lowboy 14y agoAFAIK, stux did replicate on the computers of users without their knowledge, which is a key component of malware from my understanding of the term. So stux is malware.
- icebraining 14y agoStuxnet is a worm, which have always been considered malware. And while the definition can change, of course, I don't see why it would.