Imagine that there was a virus that would heal a computer rather than damage a computer.
Lets say there was a computer virus that once released would infect a computer through a vulnerability. Then it would Heal that vulnerability and spread to two other computers with the same vulnerability.
This would effectivly spread throughout the internet healing all of the vulnerabilities it could find.
This could be a method that software companies could send out patches for thier software.
You could extend this algorithm to clean the computer of other bad viruses as well as spyware/malware.
This would make the internet a much safer place.
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If such a thing were possible, I imagine it would be quite wonderful. However, like the pharmaceutical companies, people don't like to give the cure away when they can make money on it. This would have to come from the open-source community and since viruses target the systems and programs that are most prevalent (IE and Windows) then such a situation probably won't happen.
What if there was an open source project to create programs that would use the security vulnerabilies of internet explorer to apply the patches of the vulnerablily ?
I don't know about you but if I found a bug in a program I would notify the software developers of the bug rather than try to exploit the bug.
That's what usually happens, the makers get notified. Some exploit the security hole, but I'd guess that more people report than exploit.
Kinda like Mozilla style anti-malware.
it will really be helpfull for computers if there would be a healing virus that spreads like a virus.specealy with the spywares in the internet and its a hastle when viruses spreads in our computer.
Anything that modifies a machine is bad. Sure it can be fixing up vulnerabilities, but not every vulnerability is under the same circumstances. Let's say the "virus" got in through an open port, which I had open to run my special server. I get this healing virus, and the server inexplicably stops working.
It's a good idea, but you can never predict exactly what needs to be fixed and what doesn't.