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Article: Code Red hits DSL routers, cable-modem networks; Cisco equipment embedded with Microsoft ISS is also vulnerable.(Technology Information)
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- Network World
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- August 8, 2001
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The Code Red worm in all its variants continues its destructive spread, not only worming its way into hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Web servers, but also having a newly noticed impact on a broad range of Cisco equipment, including DSL routers within the Qwest network.
In addition, cable Internet providers, including Time-Warner, AT&T, Cox Communications and Excite, have experienced network slowdowns as the new, rewritten version of Code Red discovered last weekend continues to spread.
Dubbed Code Red II, the new computer worm, which includes a dangerous backdoor Trojan, has bogged down their networks by infecting Internet-connected machines where ...