On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, James Stauffer wrote:

> send itself, only the patch).  It's legality shouldn't be a problem because
> you are only protecting your computer and not harming the other computer.
> It could also try to email webmaster at the machine.

It's still a legal issue because you're technically "breaking in" to
another computer.  While I agree that it'd be a Nice Thing To Do(tm) it'd
still be called "hacking" by some of the not so bright law makers and
you'd still go to jail.  Sad, isn't it?

-Brian