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To: Greg from Edmonton who wrote (176)	8/9/2001 12:00:30 PM
From: caly	of 210

For some reason, I find this highly amusing... dailynews.yahoo.com Thursday August 09 11:00 AM EDT Microsoft says Hotmail hit by Code Red By Erich Luening CNET News.com Microsoft has confirmed that some servers running its MSN Hotmail service were infected with a version of the Code Red worm, a contagion that takes advantage of a hole in the company's Web server software running on Windows NT and Windows 2000 (news - web sites) systems. Although the free e-mail service was hit and a number of its servers were brought offline to deal with the problem, no personal information was breached, a company representative said Thursday. Microsoft says about 110 million people have accounts with the free Web-based e-mail service. The infection comes after a big push by the Redmond, Wash., software giant to get customers to download a patch to protect their computers from the virus. Similar attacks have contaminated hundreds of thousands of server systems around the world, and even spawned a sequel, which does more than just overwhelm networks. After it infects a computer server, it reboots the computer and leaves behind a "back door" that could allow a hacker to gain control of or access to the infected systems. The original Code Red worm prompted the White House to move the address of its Web site and led to government warnings from the FBI (news - web sites) before the reactivated worm was thought to have tapered off. E

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