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"Witty" Worm Wrecks Computers
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.
Jennifer, I am in love with you.
I don't see Macs or Linux boxen having "features" like this.
And no, that is most certainly not a troll, it's a statement of fact. If you were thinking of modding me down, you're just pissed that I'm right.
I'm out of luck...but I'm sure you're good to go.
Sorry, I could not hear your horn. Would you mind terribly tooting it just a little bit louder? Thank you, I look forward to hearing what you realy think about yourself! I have this hint, a feeling you might say, that you are truly awesome!
On second thought, maybe you are just an immature braggart whose software I will make sure to avoid.
FYI, "FAT tables" is a redundant phrase.
FYI, you're a pedantic piece of shit.
Would you rather they said "FA tables"?
Get a fucking clue.
I've used IE for years and years. I've probably logged around 10 thousand hours browsing the net with IE. (Many hours a day, probably too many hours most days, everyday, for many years.)
/. I don't understand how intelligent people can spread so much misinformation. I understand liking something more than something else and wanting to see it succeed, but it is wrong to lie.
/. have only one computer?
I've run the gammbit too, I'm not just talking about reading slashdot, there's not many corners of the net I haven't explored.
In all the hours I've spent browsing, all the places I've been, I've never once gotten a virus. The funny thing is, for awhile I was surprised. So many people in so many places talk about how insecure IE is that it's hard not to believe it.
For a long time I just thought I was lucky, my time was coming. It's not luck though, it's a myth. IE is no where near as risky or dangerous to use as the common misconception.
I'm not going to try to say it's more secure than anything else, for all I know it is the least secure web browser around. Yet, to borrow a phrase from Mac zealots, it just works, everywhere you go.
There are many intelligent people on
I've got several machines running Windows, a couple running Linux, and an iBook. I love COMPUTERS, I have been obsessed with them for over 20 years. No platform is even close to perfect right now, yet each has strengths and weaknesses compared to the others. Sure, if you can have only one then you have to just pick the one with the most strengths for you, but how many people here at
I wish everyone would just focus on helping each OS in becoming the best it can be, not tearing apart others in the hopes of there being only one.
This is no more off topic than the parent.