that internet security scanner

[Doug Merritt]

Stanton McCandlish <mech at eff.org> said:
>anyone actually seen that thing? (to refresh: CERT posted some warning
>about a security scanner for Internet systems that might be the evil work
>of themthere hackers so you just better delete it, etc etc.)  

(A) The "evil" in question was posted to comp.sources.misc (or some other
similarly obvious group). (B) The advisory was about as neutral as such
a thing can be.

Further comment fails me.
        Doug