On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 17:36, Renaud Deraison wrote: > I raised the description level to security hole, and put the script in the > DANGEROUS family. > > However I don't really see what the issue is - the remote host is > infected by a virus which has a backdoor listening on it. You have the > choice of either: > > - Disabling that virus and notify the owner of the machine > or > - Notify the owner and let the virus spread itself >
Hi- I believe this opens up the legal liability issue. Who gives permission for you to remove anything? And what happens if you break something by doing it? I believe that we all need to be responsible and to help our "neighbor" but there are limits. If our neighbor has a dog that barks, is it our right to silence it? If our neighbor allows kids to come over and drink, do we have a right to do anything but call the authorities? I would support a system that enabled ISP's and upstream providers the right to enforce things like, your service is cut of if you get infected or your connection is routed to a quarantine section of their network, but how could we convince them of the profit in that? Just my 2 cents... Kevin _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
