Hi, first in other countries you may prevent any illegal action against yourself and others with *reasonable* meassures under the "selfdefense" regulations. But in the case of LaBrea you do not do anything against the other computer. It is more like your neighbour allways parks his car in your garage and you make the entrance smaller so that your car will still fit in but his car will not. I do not think you have to pay for the demages on his car if he again tries to illegally park his car in your garage. mike On 23 Sep 2001, at 14:21, Mike Reaves wrote:
It is clearly stated in American law at least that "Self Defense" is only applicable in circumstances where there is a "Reasonable cause for bodily injury". This doesn't mean injury of personal possessions. Therefore, if you had to go to court over this, you wouldn't have much legal ground to stand on. So I'd be very careful before implementing any type of script to exploit Nimda's vulnerabilities. Especially considering that, under American law, you could be prosecuted just as equally as the person that wrote the virus originally.
Just some thoughts. -Mike Reaves
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexey N. Solofnenko" <alexeys@citechlabs.com> To: <suse-security@suse.com> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 2:06 PM Subject: RE: [suse-security] Is it possible to return something, so Nimda would crash?
Maybe this is the best way to handle it, because usually people do not know if their computers are infected. I think it is possible to write root.exe or default.ida script that will send increasingly rude messages back to webadmin every week the script gets a hit.
Sincerely, Alexey Solofnenko. _____
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