Code Red crawls back into action

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31 July 2001 12:47 PM
Tags: "code red", worm, virus

Security experts say it could be an Internet first - a worldwide response by end users to secure their systems against the Code Red worm, which threatened to cripple the Web.

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Code Red worm goes underground
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