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I scanned about 2,000 ip numbers a little while ago and only found one that
was vulnerable and about 5 possibles no banner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Augustine" <RonAug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <qcharts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 9:12 PM
Subject: FYI -- NT & Win-2k Users
> 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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