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COMPUTER SECURITY Companies Bracing For Code Red, But Is It Tip Of Iceberg?(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)
Byline: Donna Howell
Did the Internet swallow the worm, or vice versa? The online world waited nervously Wednesday, wondering if it would catch a really bad bug.
Meanwhile, the computer worm Code Red crawled the Internet in search of victims. It's said to be named for a caffeine-laden cherry soda sold to the high-tech set, though some think the worm originated in China and was thus named.
By late afternoon, worm watchers' worst fears were far from realized -- yet not unfounded. The FBI had warned that Code Red could cause Internet outages by eating bandwidth while scanning for new servers to infect.
The worm caused several disturbances on Defense Department networks, a spokesman said. But as of midafternoon, no significant degradation in Internet performance was seen.
In mid-July the worm flooded the White House's Web address with traffic in a denial-of-service attack. The Pentagon later temporarily shut off public access to its Web sites, due to Code Red.
But the worm entered a new phase in its life cycle -- the spreading phase -- Tuesday night.
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