September 14, 2001
'Code Red' Worms Linger, but Most Problems Are Minor
Campus-computing officials say that they're still seeing daily evidence of two software worms that made their way across the Internet this summer -- "Code Red" and "Code Red II" -- although network gridlock and server crashes have diminished.
"The number of attacks is down from many hundreds per hour," says Mark Berman, director of networks and systems at Williams College.
Many network-security managers were dismayed to discover that installing Microsoft's recommended software
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