Witty Worm Isn't Funny

A new virus called "Witty Worm" (it has some text inviting people to insert a witty phrase) is currently creating major disruption because it attacks, and potentially destroys, computers by overwriting the hard disks.

The worm expoits a recently published weakness in some firewall products from ISS, these have the brand names of BlackIce and RealSecure. ISS has issued a patch for their systems.

Your server administrator should already be aware of the problem and have downloaded the patch, but you should check that you do not have a vunerability.