IRC Networks Unite in Fight Against Fizzer Worm

Dave writes "Over the past few days, IRC Networks across the internet have felt the brunt of the Fizzer worm. In an unusual display of geek solidarity, representatives from dozens of IRC Networks, including EFNet, IRCNet and DALnet, have gathered to create a Fizzer Task Force. Interesting, and mostly productive results have occurred so far from such a meeting of the IRC minds."

Comments

*Ahem*

[guacamolefoo]

From Symantec:

Systems Not Affected: Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX, Linux

Heh. Clearly the work of an evil genius.

GF.

Re:method

[Lxy]

It's YAOW (Outlook Worm). Same drill, you open an infected attachment, it copies itself to the address book as well as installs its payload.

Dammit, when are worms going to get interesting again? This "exploit the hell out of Outlook" routine is getting old.

Not your usual "task force"

[mao che minh]

No, there are no physically adept and good looking individuals complemeted with the obligatory "tough guy". No Tommy Lee Jones-like leader, bravely charging into danger. No electronics laden vans and phone taps. Just a bunch of pasty guys that are experts on Star Trek lore and like to debate the power of Perl.

"task force"

Heh

Re:mIRC

[bongoras]

AH HA!

That is compelling evidence, of course... the virus was written by Microsoft. Next week they plan to release Fizzer XP Service Pack 1 which will fix those issues.

Re:As Well They Should ...

[DNS-and-BIND]

We really need to shut down USENET as well, as it's a major conduit for the distribution of warez. FTP is also a big problem. The world wide web is a major, major conduit for the distribution of warez. And don't even talk to me about filesharing networks...all major conduits for the distribution of warez.