Comment Re:history must have some prior art (Score 1) 176
Funny you should mention this... There was widespread talk about using 'white hat worms' to patch systems infected with Code Red and Nimda, both enabled by bugs in MS products. The idea was that it would remove and patch infected/compromised systems and inoculate systems that had not yet been targeted.
I'm pretty sure there have been ideas floated around to distribute vaccines through alternate means similar to what MS is trying to patent.