I look at it this way: your average noisy worm author has no clue what he's doing. He's not really malicious; he's a hooligan. Or she. Whatever. He for purpose of discourse.
A truly malicious individual would use a low-volume worm for collection of data, followed by various exploitatures aimed at 0wnage. 0wnage covers box exploitation of removal of files, storage of files, or simply a jumpoff point for further exploitation of others (track coverage.) There are most likely other scenarios I have not experienced/thought of, as well.
The unclued individuals are not recognizing that they are not really hurting Microsoft in the way they would like; sure, some people are questioning why they use Microsoft products but that happens ANYWAY. Just like use of any software product. Microsoft itself relies on this to keep people upgrading, as do all other software companies. And hardware companies. The main 'annoyance' of the noisy worm is at the back end, the technicians and others who probably ALREADY would like to do something about the prevailing problem. Reports of infections from CIO's and network leads (the people who should "know better") are common. This emphasises that no one is switching to an alternate OS as a result of a worm.
Equivalent: Linsux loosers spamming a BSD irc channel with "BSD SUCKS" or similar trolls on mailing lists. (I do recognize that this happens with all zealots, but I've encountered approximately 8000% more annoying Linsux users than any other OS. And that includes Windows, tho they are creeping up there much faster than BSD or other platforms.)
And it's that proliferation of people of that ilk who are going to continue to put out worms of this sort. (Excepting those putting out a 'cover worm' so as to distract from the silent-but-deadly worm.)
Ah, tactics... Aren't you glad you're fighting a war where your leaders are selling the enemy weapons to kill you? Odd how that matches, isn't it?
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A truly malicious individual would use a low-volume worm for collection of data, followed by various exploitatures aimed at 0wnage. 0wnage covers box exploitation of removal of files, storage of files, or simply a jumpoff point for further exploitation of others (track coverage.) There are most likely other scenarios I have not experienced/thought of, as well.
The unclued individuals are not recognizing that they are not really hurting Microsoft in the way they would like; sure, some people are questioning why they use Microsoft products but that happens ANYWAY. Just like use of any software product. Microsoft itself relies on this to keep people upgrading, as do all other software companies. And hardware companies. The main 'annoyance' of the noisy worm is at the back end, the technicians and others who probably ALREADY would like to do something about the prevailing problem. Reports of infections from CIO's and network leads (the people who should "know better") are common. This emphasises that no one is switching to an alternate OS as a result of a worm.
Equivalent: Linsux loosers spamming a BSD irc channel with "BSD SUCKS" or similar trolls on mailing lists. (I do recognize that this happens with all zealots, but I've encountered approximately 8000% more annoying Linsux users than any other OS. And that includes Windows, tho they are creeping up there much faster than BSD or other platforms.)
And it's that proliferation of people of that ilk who are going to continue to put out worms of this sort. (Excepting those putting out a 'cover worm' so as to distract from the silent-but-deadly worm.)
Ah, tactics... Aren't you glad you're fighting a war where your leaders are selling the enemy weapons to kill you? Odd how that matches, isn't it?