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

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NIGHTfall_240sx
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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. i wanted to be sure if it will really work and it can, i didnt test or download, but the concept idea works, the coder had to have worked on this idea for a while.

read about it here

fixed linkhttp://news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...mar20


[Zero-S]
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$#(*in virus writers are pure scum imo.

I'm glad I have a hardware firewall :D

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rico05
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Thank god I didn't reinstall Black Ice Defender yet after I reformatted last week.

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Checkered-Member
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I bet the guy the made black ice made the worm

[Zero-S]
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nah, most likely reversed engineered part of blackice and found an exploit he could use.

toki
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lol, virii authors are usually odd people...

I used to know an unfortunatly renounded virii author here in town, worked AL (Artificial Life) programs (self preserving)...I still have source code he gave me that will fry a monitor if run. It's in-didly-sane.

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elwesso
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Link is messed up.....

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Get240DiZzY
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I actually got that virus - thank God for my friend Norton, or this post wouldn't exist.

NIGHTfall_240sx
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elwesso wrote:Link is messed up.....


i fixed it for ya.. sorryhttp://news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...mar20

JESTER
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Norton is the man, isn't he.

StrangeLove
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I'm glad being unprotected protected me :confused:

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Jesda
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Like the crazy people who ran to the woods and set up bunkers during Y2k, I have my trusty iMac sitting here in case a virus causes the world to end.

-Jesda


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