You guys here about this? The Code Red virus? It was just on the news. You can download protection and learn more about it at Microsoft.com. Here is a quote right from Microsoft:
On July 19, the Code Red worm infected more than 250,000 systems in just 9 hours. The worm scans the Internet, identifies vulnerable systems, and infects these systems by installing itself. Each newly installed worm joins all the others causing the rate of scanning to grow rapidly. This uncontrolled growth in scanning directly decreases the speed of the Internet and can cause sporadic but widespread outages among all types of systems. Code Red is likely to start spreading again on July 31st, 2001 8:00 PM EDT and has mutated so that it may be even more dangerous. This spread has the potential to disrupt business and personal use of the Internet for applications such as electronic commerce, email and entertainment.
Luckily if you get it, it will just slow down your internet activity, and it can be removed by just turning your system off and then back on. It is supposed to mutate in later months and is targeting big businesses and web servers such as the white house website. Pretty messed up!
On July 19, the Code Red worm infected more than 250,000 systems in just 9 hours. The worm scans the Internet, identifies vulnerable systems, and infects these systems by installing itself. Each newly installed worm joins all the others causing the rate of scanning to grow rapidly. This uncontrolled growth in scanning directly decreases the speed of the Internet and can cause sporadic but widespread outages among all types of systems. Code Red is likely to start spreading again on July 31st, 2001 8:00 PM EDT and has mutated so that it may be even more dangerous. This spread has the potential to disrupt business and personal use of the Internet for applications such as electronic commerce, email and entertainment.
Luckily if you get it, it will just slow down your internet activity, and it can be removed by just turning your system off and then back on. It is supposed to mutate in later months and is targeting big businesses and web servers such as the white house website. Pretty messed up!
