Exploit In Black Ice Destroys at least 50,000 Computers!

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The "Witty" worm writes random data onto the hard drives of computers equipped with the Black Ice and Real Secure Internet firewall products, causing the drives to fail and making it impossible to restart the PCs. Unlike many recent worms that arrive as e-mail attachments, it spreads automatically to vulnerable computers without any action on the part of the user.

Read the whole story here http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&printer=1&cid=1804&e=1&u=/washpost/a11310_2004mar20

Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 8:45 am

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Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 07, 2003 Posts: 33

That sounds scary man. Good thing I'm not using Black Ice or Real Secure. Very Happy

Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 10:33 am

Try this one http://list.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0403&L=msunag&F=&S=&P=5815 or do a google search

Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 10:40 pm

Apparently this exploit only affects versions below 3.6cci (black ice)- the patch I have had for over a month or two now.

Scary though, I will give you that.

-sting

Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 10:42 pm

Please note that my post was from 3/22/2004. It's old news now.