"Witty" Worm Wrecks Computers 587
An anonymous reader writes "A new Internet worm wriggled across the entire Internet in the span of a few hours Saturday morning to all computers running several recent versions of firewall software from Internet Security Systems, including BlackICE and RealSecure, according to this story at Washingtonpost.com. The flaw that Witty exploited was discovered Wednesday by eEye Digital Security. The worm overwrites data on the first few sectors of the victim's hard drive, making the machine virtually ubootable and potentially destroying much - if not all - of the victim's data." Update: 03/21 02:18 GMT by T : Reader Jeff Horning points out that eEye actually disovered the worm on the 8th of March, and came up with a fix the next day.
One question (Score:4, Funny)
fp (Score:2, Funny)
Come on.... (Score:5, Funny)
Say it With Me Now, Folks... (Score:0, Funny)
I just now (10 min ago) plugged my laptop into my brand new DSL modem... Now I have to install the antivirus program before rebooting... Shit shit shit...
I propose we introduce the death penalty on the sick motherfucker who wrote this fucking piece of shit virus. FUCK!
(And no, I haven't watched any Tarantino films lately)
Now that's powerful (Score:4, Funny)
I didn't know worms were so powerful now that they could melt a computer into a pile of toxic sludge. : /
-Colin [colingregorypalmer.net]
Re:Stick to hardware routers and firewalls... (Score:5, Funny)
People would be much better off with hardware versions of Internet Explorer and Outlook (Express) in that respect. Yikes.
Re:One question (Score:4, Funny)
This is a perfect time to promote the expression (Score:5, Funny)
More cryptic acronyms to the people!
Avoiding Viruses and Trojans (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Say it With Me Now, Folks... (Score:1, Funny)
[the kids run out]
[standing up] F --
[a church organ plays a chord; birds fly away; everything stops]
Ned: Dear Lord! That's the loudest profanity I've ever heard.
Re:Stick to hardware routers and firewalls... (Score:2, Funny)
Or if you prefer... (Score:4, Funny)
How 1980s. Yikes.
Re:Imprecise! (Score:3, Funny)
"all computers running several recent versions of firewall software from Internet Security Systems, including BlackICE and RealSecure,"
Google tells me Quantian is Knoppix/Debian.
http://www.iss.net/products_services/blackice.p
While there are RealSecure sensor nodes for Linux, the desktop software being referred to here is also a Windows product.
In other words, BZZZT! Thanks for playing the troll today.
Serves 'em right. (Score:4, Funny)
err, never mind.
My personal theory (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This is a perfect time to promote the expressio (Score:3, Funny)
> More cryptic acronyms to the people!
That's MCATTP around here, chum.
Re:fp (Score:4, Funny)
Ahhhh~
Re:Is ZoneAlarm Vulnerable too? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is an interesting one, almost biological (Score:4, Funny)
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Fumble: [f-secure.com]
- This virus will generate typing errors, every now and then. That is, if you press the "R" key for example, it will occasionally insert another letter like "E" in the text instead.
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dBASE: [f-secure.com]
- The dBase virus is very rare, but rather curious. It is clearly intended to garble dBase files, or rather any file with a name that ends in
.DBF.
.DBF file, it will garble all the outgoing data. However, when the data is read back later, the virus will correct the garbled data.
.DBF file that is more that three months old, the virus will try to destroy the FAT and root directory on drives D:, E: .... Z: There is a bug in the code, however, so the destruction will be rather unpredictable.
I have no idea why someone hasn't put an imaginatively evil payload in a modern virus.If the virus is active in memory when a program writes to a
There is just one problem. If the virus is detected and removed, the data will be useless because the virus will not be present to "de-garble" it when it is read back.
There is a more harmful side to this virus. If an attempt is made to write to a
Shouldnt it be: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:where are all the virus's that do real damage? (Score:2, Funny)
Obviously you didn't read the article very well.
It says that you need to rebuild your machine from scratch or buy a whole new computer.
Re:Stick to hardware routers and firewalls... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Stick to hardware routers and firewalls... (Score:1, Funny)
If you can read this message (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My WinXP box got hit with this (Score:2, Funny)