Computer Bugs
Code Red Worm Activity
Original release date: June 19, 2001
There has been a dramatic increase in reports of website defacements and scans for hosts listening on TCP port 80. This activity appears to be related to the “Code Red” worm, a recently discovered worm that exploits the buffer overflow in the IIS Indexing Service DLL. More information can be found at http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-13.html
Systems Affected
?· Systems running Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with IIS 4.0 or IIS 5.0 enabled
?· Systems running Microsoft Windows 2000 (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, Datacenter Server)
?· Systems running beta versions of Microsoft Windows XP
There is a
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