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To: Jim Bishop who wrote (89219)	7/31/2001 11:40:33 AM
From: Rocket Red	Respond to of 150070

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To: Jim Bishop who wrote (89219)	7/31/2001 11:41:06 AM
From: CIMA	Respond to of 150070

Repent! Code Red Is Near Remember when the Y2K bug was going to crash the market, cripple your computer and rain down a plague of frogs? If you're nostalgic for tech hysteria, check out the latest wave of coverage about the Code Red worm. It's hard to miss in its prime spot on many online news pages. Hurry and you may still be able to stock up on canned food for your survivalist bunker. In an event widely referred to as "unprecedented," reps from the U.S. government and Microsoft issued a high-profile warning about Code Red, urging IT workers to download a preventative patch. According to the advisory, Code Red could "could impact businesses and home users as the Internet slows down dramatically." Translation: Life online might remind you of the 14.4 modem days for a while. The worm might also "deface some Web pages (and) cause a lot of extra work for systems administrators," said Wired News. Annoying, especially for the sys admins, but not a crisis. Or is it? "Tuesday is D-Day for computer users," warned CBS News. The worm "could squirm into 6 million more computers starting Tuesday night," said USA Today. (That's assuming every one of the 6 million computers running Microsoft's IIS Web server gets infected, so don't hold your breath.) The Detroit Free Press called it "the biggest threat the Internet has ever experienced," while the Houston Chronicle hedged a similar superlative with a "some say." Security analyst Russ Cooper fed the fire with his quotes for the BBC News Online (Code Red is "enough to cause the meltdown of the Internet") and Internet Week (the Net "could shut down by August"). News.com's front page featured a graphic of a gas mask. The wiseguys at the Register quoted the Book of Revelations - but at least they were kidding. There was some confusion over what time we should run to our bomb shelters. The worm is set to rejuvenate just after midnight, Greenwich Mean Time. Most American writers translated this into 8 p.m. EDT or 5 p.m. PDT - Greenwich Mean Time minus the proper number of hours. But otherwise accurate Boston Globe and Wired News articles said 7p.m. EDT, which would have been right if Greenwich were on British Summer Time. With a few exceptions, the media showed more restraint than it did in the pre-Y2K days. Most reporters said normal end-users won't get the Code Red. Not all security experts predicted the apocalypse. Links to Microsoft's patch abounded, along with assurances that it's really quite easy to prevent this thing. And who knows? The panic may help ward off the worm, which might make all the fuss worthwhile. The 14.4 modem era really was a drag. - Jen Muehlbauer FBI Warns of Code Red Redoubling thestandard.com Beware 'Code Red' cbsnews.com Get ready for 'Code Red' worm version 2.0 usatoday.com Internet put on Code Red alert news.bbc.co.uk Code Red Dormant--For Now internetwk.com Mike Wendland: Worm could endanger Net tonight freep.com Firms brace for onslaught by Code Red chron.com Code Red: Is This the Apocalypse? wired.com "Red" alert: The worm returns news.cnet.com Code Red virus expected to hit computers boston.com Code Red Tribulation is nigh, Steve Gibson warns theregister.co.uk A Very Real and Present Threat to the Internet microsoft.com