There’s a new virus going around the net called [Nimda]. This little bad boy makes Code Red look rather amateurish in comparison.

One of the reasons viruses like this propagate so quickly, in my mind, is all those insecure Win2K servers sitting out there on cable and dsl modems. Their sole purpose in life seems to be getting exploited (since their administrators (or users) don’t know the first thing about securing them). Since I run a linux server, all this does is waste my bandwidth and slow down how fast I can serve my web sites up.

I suggest this: The linux community needs to come up with a proactive sort of “virus scan”. Simply put, when their boxes start getting hammered with the bizarre requests that these infected machines spew out, they reach back in such a way as to shut the offending server down (by crashing it, or simply making windows shut itself down).

Is this bad? Probably, but it would stop the spread of this type of virus to a crawl (instead of the ramped gallop that they run at now).

Make no mistake, this type of protection would make no distinction between the virus or the machines that harbor them.

I like it!