Code Red Stopped Dead Cold by Managed Security Provider

Reading, Pennsylvania, July 30, 2001, the CEO of We Manage Servers calmly reads an urgent Microsoft Corporation security announcement calling for action by or before Tuesday, July 31, 2001.

On July 19, the Code Red worm infected more than 250,000 systems in just 9 hours. The worm scans the Internet, identifies vulnerable systems, and infects these systems by installing itself. Each newly installed worm joins all the others causing the rate of scanning to grow rapidly. This uncontrolled growth in scanning directly decreases the speed of the Internet and can cause sporadic but widespread outages among all types of systems. Code Red is likely to start spreading again on July 31st, 2001 8:00 PM EDT and has mutated so that it may be even more dangerous.  This spread has the potential to disrupt business and personal use of the Internet for applications such as electronic commerce, email and entertainment.

The security patch to stop Code Red dead cold was published by Microsoft Corporation on Monday, June 18, 2001.

We Manage Server technicians installed this patch on all managed service customers running potentially impacted systems by the morning of Tuesday, June 19, 2001.

While 250,000 systems were infected in just nine hours on July 19, 2001, not one customer of We Manage Servers felt down time due to this virus.

We Manage Servers’ security team monitors a large number of security update and vulnerability reporting sites making sure to note what updates need to be applied to what servers; and, making sure those are applied in a timely manner.

About We Manage Servers
We Manage Servers is a division of Dynamic Net, Inc. We Manage Servers helps companies take advantage of the power of co-located and dedicated servers without the hassles of knowing how to run and care for them. For more information visit http://www.wemanageservers.com/.