South Korea says third version of Code Red detected

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SEOUL (REUTERS) - The Code Red computer virus has mutated into a third more dangerous variant, South Korea's Information and Communication Ministry said Friday.

About 10 damage reports have come in which were believed to have been the result of the latest Code Red III, Ko Kwang-sup, an official at the ministry, told Reuters.

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Code Red hits Hotmail, FedEx servers

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Code Red claimed two major victims this week, as Microsoft confirmed that some servers running its MSN Hotmail service were infected with a version of the worm and express-shipping giant Federal Express said the worm interfered with some deliveries Wednesday.

Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said Thursday that some Hotmail servers were brought offline to deal with the problem and that service was not disrupted. About 110 million people have accounts with the free Web-based e-mail service, according to Microsoft.

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Not Everything Is Peachy With PDFs

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The security firm Vigilinx Inc. is alerting customers of a first-ever worm that replicates using an Adobe portable document format (PDF). The PeachyPDF@mm worm mass mails itself through Microsoft Outlook. Not only does it send itself to 100 addresses from an infected users' address book, it also sends itself to the users' alternative E-mail addresses.

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Meaner Code Red II worm appears in Asia

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A meaner version of the Code Red Internet worm has made its first appearance in Asia, infesting dozens of computers in China, security experts said on Tuesday.

South Korea was trying to determine whether it was this pernicious worm which had attacked government computers and Hong Kong also reported at least one confirmed infection.

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New Code Red Variant

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Clutch (Thanks) forward the follow news from IISAnswers to me:

I am posting a message about a new variant of the Code Red virus that has started circulating. This one is much worse and if you are infected, probably ought to reformat.

This morning, AFAIK, a new Code Red variant was released.

Experts warn of new Code Red strain

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A new and possibly more virulent version of the Code Red computer worm was detected circulating the Internet over the weekend, attacking machines and leaving them vulnerable to other intruders, a leading Internet security site reported.

The Systems Administration, Networking and Security Institute (SANS) said in an advisory on its Web site that the latest variant of the computer virus seems to leave a back door in infected systems that makes them easy for an intruder to infiltrate.

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SirCam worm still spreading documents

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Like a summer cold that just won't go away, the SirCam e-mail worm lingers on, sending out the contents of infected hard drives for all the world to see.

Even as most companies have prevented their networks from spreading the bug, individual computer users continue to send out infected files day after day, with the worm piggybacking on documents ranging from confidential to comical: recipes, shopping lists and lots and lots of resumes. The result is that SirCam is still spreading two weeks after it first cropped up.

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Over 1 Million Have Downloaded Code Red Patch

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The worm will scan the Internet from infected servers, searching for servers that do not have Microsoft's fix in place. As more systems become infected, the worm's propagation will increase, potentially resulting in the Internet slowdown. But there is hope that the second wave of the worm will not be as devastating as the first.

According to Microsoft, as of late Monday, more than 1 million patches had been downloaded. Experts hope that the estimated 6 million potential targets will be patched by Tuesday's deadline.

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