STONECPS

Some companies have employed technical experts to scan, test and hack their system in order to determine how to implement a secure infrastructure such as ethical hacking, penetration testing, integrity checkers, vulnerability scanning and many more. This is an effort with permission from management and the supervision of system administrators. Other than this, this is typically falls in the category of an illegal act which is hacking. But even if systems administrators are aware of the test being conducted on their systems, they will still test and scan their systems of the possible effects of the hacking test that they conducted to their network infrastructure or retrace that nothing was changed or added. And these cost time and money from the organization.

So is there such a thing as a harmless worm? In my opinion, my answer is no, because no matter how little the effect of the program, it still causes us disruption on our work such as the latest Obama worm which shows his face every week in your desktop not unless you really love the guy but to many who has been infected, would they want it too? It causes time and money especially when we’re cleaning up our systems. When a computer “worm” was coined in our society few decades ago, it has been labeled as a malware causing a bad effect to your system or systems around the world and stating it as harmless; we’ll be making another definition for it.

So even if the worms’ intention is harmless, it will still do damage to the network. The problem with worms is that it doesn’t need user’s intervention in order to spread; it spread and multiplies on its own. The damage created by the worm can be as little as using an organization’s bandwidth and resources but as little an effect as this will still cost the organization time and money and thus can be considered harmful.