Black Ice and Real Secure firewall users beware; there is a worm out there that will wreck your computer called the Real Witty Worm. If you use these programs, get thee off the Internet NOW (unplug/turn off the modem) andfind a friend that uses another firewall to download the patch. This worm is not spread by email, so you have to worry even if you don't open strange attachments.
Thanks to Joe for spreading the news.
I hadn't heard about this; but, then, I run neither Black Ice nor Real Secure. My firewall is whatever PC-cillin uses. I did notice when I logged on a couple of minutes ago that PC-cillin picked up another update. For the last several weeks it's been updated nearly every time that I've logged on--even when I've logged on twice in one day. When I did a manual scan a few days ago, it found an instance of MyWorm that had somehow gotten through. PC-cillin couldn't do anything but quarantine the file, so I wiped it out.
Posted by: Cop Car | March 23, 2004 at 09:48 PM
I used to run Black Ice a couple of years ago, but one of the updates caused a Major problem with my computer so I returned to Norton's (which has its own agravations - like the update engine decided to foul up so now I have to uninstall then reinstall).
Posted by: Bogie | March 24, 2004 at 06:51 AM