Blackice Vulnerability

[Ron]

Hi all,

I know we have a bunch of techie-types here at the forum, and some of them may be running Blackice...

Here is a quick synopsis...

A Slammer-like worm dubbed Witty is spreading, generating large amounts of network traffic and leaving ruined computers in its wake.

The worm, which appeared overnight Friday, exploits a weakness in the widely-used Black Ice security products, and is not detected by antivirus software, as it resides in memory. When an infected system is rebooted, Witty deletes a randomly chosen section of the hard drive, rendering some machines unusable.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/20...a chines.html


I just love this newsletter I'm getting from netcraft.com....

[G.Bloke]

Whats this, the fifth-sixth exploit of BlackIce? And people still use it?

I hear more bad stuff about BlackIce than good.

[Orbitz]

I read about the news too; luckily, i am using Zonealarm.

[Vin DSL]

BlackIce sucks! ZoneAlarm Pro sucks too! Use the freeware version of ZoneAlarm and all will be good...

[Toly]

I've always used Norton Firewall, but last month I decided to give ZoneAlarm a try. I like what I've seen so far.

[Galen]

Little known firewall that blows everything else out of the water (imho): Sygate Personal Firewall