I'm writting this in response to all those 'white hat' worms being released on the internet...



'White Hat' worms aren't really white hat, only their users can be white hat, they are just worms programmed against 'black hat' worms. They can be used for grey hat purposes, but are still called 'white hat' worms(Ex. using a 'white hat' worm to remove a 'black hat' worm on computers that you don't have permission for).

Most people have this little voice inside their head that tells them to become a hero, someone for the kids to look up to. Why wouldn't you want to be a hero, well Heros are an opinion of someone, not always a good opinion. Using a worm to remove other worms from the entire internet would make you a hero to some, but a "hacker" to others. Once you penetrate into a computers that isn't yours, you suddenly cause the IT department to spend money on that computer for inspection costs, but not every computer has a IT department with it. What if that worm that you sent had a bug in it, that might cause alot of money to be spent to fix it. White hats should only use 'white hat' worms on computers you only have permission for, otherwise your not a white hat. I read an idea to prompt the user to install the patch, but that is still a bad idea. That signature prompt would latter be used by black hats. The point of the promting would be to keep ignorant users safer. Let's just keep the informing the user via E-mail/IM.

The black hat world has many heros in it for the kiddies to admire. In the white hat world, there just isn't much of a place for heros. If your a grey hat, then go right a head. For the white hats out there, just remember keep those 'whit hat' worms on your own network.