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A computer worm that proliferates on Microsoft operating systems and causes
widespread Internet slowdowns could unleash a second and more virulent
epidemic on Tuesday 7/31/01, government and corporate anti-virus experts
warned.
The "Code Red" bug infiltrated hundreds of thousands of computers within
hours of its first identified outbreak on July 19. The attack forced the
White House to take evasive action and the Pentagon to halt briefly public
access to its Web sites.
The worm is designed to spread the first 20 days of each month. On the
20th, it begins targeting the White House Web site in an attempt to knock
it off the Internet. Computers harboring the virus are expected to start
another round of mass infections of other machines Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT
"The mass traffic associated with the worm propagation could degrade the
overall functioning of the Internet and impact ordinary users," Ron Dick,
the director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center, told
reporters Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/07/30/code.red/index.html
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/codered.worm.html
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