'Witty' Worm Wrecks Computers

[Silver SS]

A quickly spreading Internet worm destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of personal computers worldwide Saturday morning by exploiting a security flaw in a firewall program designed to protect PCs from online threats, computer experts said.


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.


At least 50,000 computers have been infected so far, according to Reston, Va.-based computer security firm iDefense and the Bethesda, Md.-based SANS Institute.

[Black Z]

just yestrdy I got a " doom Trojan horse virus " trying to attack my cutie little pc..

thanks god...I got my norton antivirus..updated and healthy :bigok:

[Silver SS]

Originally posted by Black Z
" doom Trojan horse virus "

is that a condom virus :lmao: :lmao:

[audi]

Originally posted by Silver SS
is that a condom virus :lmao: :lmao:
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

[Z28 Girl]

weeeeeeeeee i have to update my norton antivirus i didn't do that for along time ...:confused: :nono:

[ZOSicK]

Originally posted by Z28 Girl
weeeeeeeeee i have to update my norton antivirus i didn't do that for along time ...:confused: :nono:

sha6ra u have to always do that :bigok:

[vette4ever]

Originally posted by Silver SS
A quickly spreading Internet worm destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of personal computers worldwide Saturday morning by exploiting a security flaw in a firewall program designed to protect PCs from online threats, computer experts said.


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.


At least 50,000 computers have been infected so far, according to Reston, Va.-based computer security firm iDefense and the Bethesda, Md.-based SANS Institute.

50,001 I'm with those people which they got infected :crying:

[Black Z]

Originally posted by Silver SS
is that a condom virus :lmao: :lmao:


SILVERSS
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[ZOSicK]

Originally posted by vette4ever
50,001 I'm with those people which they got infected :crying:

hard luck :crying:

[vette4ever]

Originally posted by BlackSS
hard luck :crying:

:crying: :crying: cannt use my PC at work :crying: :crying: