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Computer Security Issues that Affect Federal, State, and Local Governments and the Code Red Worm


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By: Jeffrey J. Carpenter, 03/03/2004



The first signs of the Code Red worm appeared on July 13, 2001. Code Red is a malicious program called a worm because it is self-propagating. When it compromises a computer, the worm uses that computer to begin looking for other vulnerable computers; it then propagates itself to those computers without any user action. Code Red took advantage of the fact that many computers on the Internet ran vulnerable versions of IIS.

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