Heads UP!! 50,000 PC's destroyed by Witty Worm today!
 

If you use a firewall from Black Ice or Real Secure then you better disable it. This aint no email virus; it breaks through these firewalls and tricks them into killing your harddrive to the point where the PC has to be rebuilt. No shit!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...1310_2004mar20


I would disable any firewall right now because these two may just be the initial ones affected.

That really, really sucks. Glad my servers run Linux.

Damn ! thats a nasty one

holy. this is like the second virus i heard of that does permanent damage just like CIH 95. DO you guys remember that virus. on the 26th if flashes your bios

Great idea - lets all disable our firewalls:thumbsup mines off. My ip is 213.63.43.1

thanks for the H.U. :glugglug

BTW: I just have no concept of why people want to spread a virus or worm. It just seems like the internet is like walking down the street and waiting to get shot.

I guess people will not be happy until the internet is ruined.
Porn cheaters ruined billing, traffic trading, gallery posting, paypal etc...etc...etc... Spammers ruined email and message boards...

Humans simply will not be satisfied until we destroy everthing on earth incuding ourselves.

This fucking sucks!

Thank God I don't have Black ice.

My cisco system "hardware router is all I need"


btw I can see this thread posting about 5-6 times by mid afternoon tomorrow

Dude you aint too smart. If the firewall is not protecting you then why keep it on so that it can kill you?

Firewalls are more hype than protection anyway, they're like
car alarms...the shit keep going off but shit aint really happening.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh try it....

and I don't agree firewalls are all hype they close all my open ports and protect me from trojans:321GFY

Damn, that's a nasty one.

PHEW - used to run black ice on all the PC's
glad i got rid of that :thumbsup

That makes two of us! :Graucho

Black Ice has had a patch since 3/9.

Thanks for the heads up!

Why does there have to be a fucking asshole in every fucking post.

If you don't want the news then fucking go jump off a fucking bridge and shoot your fucking self in the head. You are the motivation for people who write viruses and commiting terrorism. Always running your fucking mouth until people get sick enough to fuck you up and everything standing next to you.


<font size=9>STFU!</font>

Get a 40 dollar router with a built in firewall.. not the best security but better then any of those shitty software firewalls.

I am to blame for sept 11th? and torrorism?:eek7 you thick peice of shit. If i was a taliban I would rape your mother and then set fire to your tiny little balls...

So fuck you asshole:321GFY

Like I stated before you will keep running your big mouth until you get your stupid ass erased.

How does this thing spread if it renders computers useless?

I'm confused how it can be sent to so many computers if it can't be resent from a dead computer?

It's times like this I'm glad I have a Macintosh. Their tiny market share makes Macs a less attractive target. Plus I think the hackers like to piss off Bill Gates.

what about firebox / hardware firewalls etc?
http://www.watchguard.com/

:1orglaugh

it probably wont be long before windows and mac are *nix and 100% compatible

Ouch:helpme

:1orglaugh

This is not a very smart move. A firewall protects you from 100's of viruses and to switch other firewalls off just because you might be affected by one would be simply stupid.


A virus that destroys the system is by far not as scary as the not detected trojan who transmits all my sensitive data over the net. One can be easily restored by a backup the other cannot be fixed.

Reading it right now, that's scaring :helpme

You are quite right, which was what I was sarcasticly pointing out when he reccomended shutting down your firewall, but this thick as shit fuckface was too stupid to see it. I got called mr taliban.

I hope the jackass gets a virus tomorrow that totally trashes his pc, he wont be able come back and start making crackpot fucking smartass remarks again.:321GFY

anyone know the name of the virus because the yahoo link is not working anymore

Did you read the title of the thread?

I didn't what was it.. ? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

that's ridiculous. If you keep the software up, unpatched then the chance of your system dying is VERY high. The chance of you getting infected by a trojan before u can update stuff is very low.

Balance the risks.

Agent Smith is that you?

how about a hardware firewall? :winkwink:

Alerts
Internet Security Systems Security Alert
March 18, 2004

Vulnerability in ICQ Parsing in ISS Products

Synopsis:

A vulnerability was discovered in the ICQ instant messaging protocol
parsing routines of the ISS Protocol Analysis Module (PAM) component.
The PAM module is a shared component of all current ISS host, server,
and network protection software and devices. The flaw relates to
incorrect parsing of the ICQ protocol which may lead to a buffer
overflow condition.

Affected Versions:

The Protocol Analysis Module (PAM) facilitates the parsing of network
protocols in order to perform further analysis and attack detection.
ICQ is a popular instant messaging application developed by ICQ Inc.,
a subsidiary of America Online. In order to detect attacks targeting
instant messaging software, PAM parses several IM protocols including
ICQ.

http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/166

I love viruses, they take idiots offline.

how can a virus/worm break through a firewall? ?

Easy. :)

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

mine is 2

yes this is true...

all you fools turn' em off.:Graucho

me and myself have BOTH.

Thank god for linux...

Oh by the way blackie Ice is shit has been from day one.

And Sam Spade is full of shit, about firewalls

Thanks for the heads up :thumbsup