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Code Red worm inches along.(Industry Trend or Event)
THE CODE RED worm, which has already infected hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide, will continue to spread during the next few weeks, although a clear picture of the situation is not yet available, according to security experts tracking the outbreak.
Meanwhile, forewarned IT managers busied themselves last week with preventive measures.
"As a result of the [Code Red] virus, we've spent time in the last two weeks adding security to our network and VPN clients," said Jonathan Taylor, CTO of Voxeo, a telephony service provider in Scotts Valley, Calif.
Various groups following the spread of Code Red since its reawakening last week have arrived at different conclusions as to how many machines the worm has infected. Although many see a slowdown in the worm's growth rate, all caution that the problem has not yet been solved.
According to Incidents.org, a security Web site which gathers data from the System Administration, Networking, and Security (SANS) Institute and DShield.org, Code Red had infected more than 238,000 systems prior to 7 a.m. EDT last Thursday. But security vendor Symantec measured the total number of infections at fewer than 100,000 systems on Thursday. Adding to the uncertainty, data from the Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center (CERT/CC) puts the spread of Code Red at approximately 200,000 systems as of midnight last Wednesday.
Data on Incidents.org indicates that the spread of the worm is slowing, although the number of scans per hour for vulnerable systems is still high.
Meanwhile, in an unexpected twist, Keynote Systems, an Internet performance monitoring company, issued an advisory last week saying the slowdown in Internet traffic it reported on July 19 was not due to Code Red, as had been thought. The company concluded that the slowdown was due to a ...
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