SCN: "Code Red" worm on July 31st.

[J. Johnson]

Never mind the Sircam virus! CERT has issued yet another advisory on the
"Code Red" worm (a self-propagating piece of code that infects "IIS", the
Microsoft web server product):  it may choke the Internet at the end of
the month. 

This worm is especially infectious--they reckon it infected over 250,000
sites in nine hours.  And that in 18 hours it could infect nearly every
vulnerable site in the world.  (But it defaces only sites where English is
the default language.) 

This is a timed-mode worm, that goes into different modes depending on the
day of the month.  CERT expects it to go crazy on August 1st (GMT; 7 PM
July 31st our time), and possibly cause such heavy network traffic as to
jam all Internet traffic.  So if telnet response is abysmal Tuesdaay
night--nope, it's not a probem with SCN!

See www.cert.org for details.

=== JJ =============================================================




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