Basically, these guys IRC nets were being bombarded by the Fizzer worm, so they took matters into their own hands and are trying to automate an uninstller for infected PC's. Now: note that under the DMCA the legality of doing this may be questionable ...

Crazy.

IRC group decrypts Fizzer commands. Using what is essentially a password that changes daily, members of the chat-security group IRC/Unity have started telling Fizzer-compromised PCs to uninstall the virus. [CNET News.com]
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A fine article from Samizdata on Libertarians and intellectual property issues called, appropiately enough, The Death of Copyright
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