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MISINFORMATION:
For fucks sake, Boneprone, get your shit right before adding to the media induced frenzy about these worms and viruses.
There have been two separate and distinct worms reported and active in the past two weeks.
1) Code Red. This is a WORM that affects webservers running Microsoft's IIS v 4.0 or 5.0. If you're not running Windows NT or 2000 Server on your desktop, you have (likely) nothing to fear. If you installed IIS 5.0 as part of a Windows 2000 Professional desktop installation, get the patch from Microsoft and run it.
Since the majority of us don't host our businesses on NT/IIS, this will not affect our websites at all, aside from a possible clogging of networks due to excess scanning traffic by worm infected computers.
2) The Win32.sircam virus. This is the email
virus that's been clogging our inboxes for the past 2 weeks. It's completely unrelated to the worm mentioned above. This WILL affect Windows desktop machines running any version of a Microsoft email client (Outlook, Outlook Express). Outlook can be fixed by running the Outlook security patch available from Microsoft. Any decent anti-virus program (I recommend Norton AV) will detect this worm and kill it, provided you have a virus definitions update file that is recent, meaning after 7/18/2001 when the major vendors added support for this bug.
OK, I feel better now.
My nuts hardly itch at all.
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