CodeRed virus hits HARD

[Rebel79]

Around 12:45 my location, Concord, CA, was hit HARD by the CodeRed version 3 virus. This is a different strain than the previous virii that hit the US last week. Version 3 is more widespread and is more powerfull because it allows the hacker to Remotely Control the infected Server. This virus infects Microsoft IIS servers running NT 4.0 & 2000.

Now what has not been released to the media yet, is that this virus INFECTS the CLIENTS! I have been tracking this all day and trying to stop the virus from spreading... about 1 hour ago we are able to separate our location from infecting other sites in our Company, however it was too late. Within 3 hours it had spread from California to Florida.

This virus infects the clients and has the PC run a port scan, looking for other IIS servers in its vicinity. Once it finds an IIS server, it infects it. The IIS server is infected and can infect clients that connect to it.

I know there are patches from Microsoft and Norton to clean the virus on the servers. I have yet to see a patch for our PC's.

For more info, go here: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ven...odered.v3.html

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