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To: Kevin Podsiadlik who wrote (72775)7/19/2001 3:42:49 PM
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Worm has servers seeing 'Code Red'

By Robert Lemos
ZDNet News
July 18, 2001 5:02 PM PT

Almost 12,000 Web servers have been infected by a new Internet worm that takes advantage of a security flaw in Microsoft software to deface sites, security experts said Wednesday. The worm could also help attackers identify infected computers and gain control of them.
Known as the Code Red worm because of evidence that it may have been launched from China, the self-spreading program infects servers using unpatched versions of Microsoft's Internet Information Server software and defaces the Web sites hosted by the servers.

The code is still being analyzed to see if it does any further damage. But the way the worm is written, it could allow online vandals to build a list of infected systems and later take control of them, said Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer with eEye Digital Security.

zdnet.com
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