Another virus CODE RED

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yup anotther virus gang
everyone on WinNT and Win2000 be carefull
this virus is called CODE RED

there is supposed to have a cure for this on Microsoft Web site
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itsolutions/security/topics/codealrt.asp

Yep, we have already applied the patches!
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This is supposed to be a really bad one! It was on all the news programs here in the U.K.
Apparently you don't even have to download anything to get it, it just sits there scanning for susceptible systems, and jumps right in.
That's all I know about it. Be VERY careful.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
According to Microsoft's web-site, it only affects users on Win2K and NT.
95 - 98 - ME, etc are unaffected
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It basically effects servers and uses them for denial of service attacks. This is it's second attack. There are patches on MS, so use them!
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ok, this virus mainly affects web servers, or w2k computers with indexing turned-on.
So it won't affect the average Joe-Outlook-Guy, but it IS gonna crash the whole internet anyway, so ya won't be able to read your mail after all
Turns out that sometime around tomorrow, it's gonna launch a VERY massive denial-of-service attack on the white-house website, which should kill a hell lot of routers on the way. If the worm is not disabled, that is.
So have fun, take some time off, go to the beach and return when it's all over...
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Btw, if you happen to be interested on monitoring overall Internet activites, check this site :

www.internettrafficreport.com

It will help to see how CodeRed will be affecting the Net.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
here the same link as FlipNET gives you

http://www.internettrafficreport.com