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There is already malware that "protects" the host by detecting and eliminating other malware. The idea is that if you keep the user's system clean (except for y
by phaus 13y ago
There is already malware that "protects" the host by detecting and eliminating other malware. The idea is that if you keep the user's system clean (except for your malware) then you will evade detection more easily.
If, as you suggested, someone released a virus designed to fix a person's computer, it would still be harmful in principle because you are making the assumption that people want strangers executing code on their machines.
- userbinator 13y ago> because you are making the assumption that people want strangers executing code on their machines Except that's pretty much what happens every time you visit a website with JS enabled...
- thaumasiotes 13y agoThis didn't deserve a downvote...
- phaus 13y agoWithout context and purely based on technicality you are correct, yet in the frame of this conversation your comment doesn't make any sense. Clearly there is a difference between a benign website and a site that hosts code that knowingly takes control of the user's computer (regardless of the programmer's intentions).