"Free" cleaning tools for worms

Mon Sep 8 20:46:19 UTC 2003

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Ray Wong wrote:
> Of course, since we STILL have to handhold users into doing things, why
> not just download the patches to our own servers, and either make CDs as
> a courtesy to customers, or setup a quarantine network we shove them off
> to, which only has access to our local patch server?  M$ still does have
> everything downloadable, for those of us who can figure out how to do it.

Its called Copyright law, but that's a layer 9 issue.

What's the difference between downloading patches on demand through a
squid cache, and keeping the file on your web server.  Akamai really sucks
for predicting where downloads will be sourced.

On a more practical subject does anyone know of any useful cleaning tools
for last months windows worms besides the "free" tools from the anti-virus
vendors?  Are there any freeware tools? Or any AV vendor willing to
distribute their single fix tools through ISPs (with a link buy the full
version)?