Sunday,6th July 2008 UTC

On this page about Code Red (computer worm):

• Tags
• Encyclopedia extract
• Translations
• Search Results

Tags

• Exploit-based worms (7)

Encyclopedia: Code Red (computer worm)

The Code Red worm was a computer worm released on the Internet on July 13, 2001. It attacked computers running Microsoft's IIS web server. The most in-depth research on the worm was performed by the programmers at eEye Digital Security. They also gave the worm its name, a reference to a variety of Mountain Dew soft drink and the phrase "Hacked By Chinese!" (see Red Scare) with which the worm defaced websites. Although the worm had been released on July 13, the largest group of infected computers was seen on July 19, 2001. On this day, the infected hosts reached 359,000.^[1]

Translations

How to say "Code Red (computer worm)" in other languages:

(French)

Code Red

Search results

Dabber

Dabber is a computer worm that spreads through a vulnerability found in the Sasser worm...

→  read in the encylopedia

Code Red worm

, 2001, a variant of the Code Red worm, named Code Red II, appeared. It pseudo-randomly chose targets... On July 19, 2001 a computer worm affecting Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) web server was unleashed on the Internet. It soon became known as Code Red , named after the Mountain Dew...

→  read in the encylopedia

Doomjuice

Doomjuice is a variant of the Mydoom computer worm, in two variants known as Doomjuice.A or Doomjuice.B . It infects Microsoft Windows. The Doomjuice variants are currently spreading to computers... computers are not at risk for infection by Doomjuice...

→  read in the encylopedia

Mimail

Mimail is a computer worm which first emerged in August of 2003; it is transmitted via e-mail. Since its initial release, nearly two dozen variants of the original Mimail worm have appeared. The Mydoom worm, which emerged in January 2004, was initially believed to be a variant of Mimail...

→  read in the encylopedia

Timeline of notable computer viruses and worms

the Internet. 2001 October 26, The klez worm is first identified. mid-2001: The Code Red worm... This is a list of noteworthy computer viruses and worms. 2004 early May: the Sasser worm emerges... and the Blaster worm begin to attack millions of Microsoft Windows computers, resulting in the...

→  read in the encylopedia

SQL slammer worm

, resembling the impact of the Code Red worm in the summer of 2001. Yonhap news agency in South Korea... The SQL slammer worm is a computer virus (technically, a computer worm) that caused a denial of.... Although titled "SQL slammer worm", the program did not use the SQL language; it exploited two...

→  read in the encylopedia

Bagle worm

Bagle is a computer worm affecting Microsoft Windows. The first strain, Bagle.A , did not propagate widely. A second variation, Bagle.B is considerably more virulent. Bagle is a mass-mailing worm. It copies itself to the Windows system directory (Bagle.A as bbeagle.exe , Bagle.B as au.exe ) and...

→  read in the encylopedia

Hybris

known as Snow White, Vecna.22528, and Full Moon, is a computer worm believed to be written by Brazillian virus writer Vecna, member of the computer virus writing group 29A. It first appeared in... Register: "Vandals behind spread of Hybris worm named...

→  read in the encylopedia

Robert Tappan Morris, Jr.

for creating the Morris Worm in 1988, considered the first computer worm on the Internet. Morris created the worm while he was a graduate student at Cornell University. The original intent, according to him, was to gauge the size of the Internet. However, the worm spread rapidly, infecting several...

→  read in the encylopedia

Sircam

Sircam is a computer worm that propagates by email from Microsoft Windows systems. It begins with one of the following lines of text and has an attachment consisting of the worm's executable with some file from the infected computer appended. I send you this file in order to have your advice I...

→  read in the encylopedia