Microsoft's Hotmail Is Red Hot From Worm
By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes
REDMOND, WASHINGTON, U.S.A.,
08 Aug 2001, 4:05 PM CST

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Several systems hosting the MSN Hotmail service have been infected 
by variants of the Code Red worm, Microsoft has confirmed.

According to a spokesperson for MSN Hotmail, which has more than 
110 million users, some servers in the free, Web-based mailservice's
server farm were recently infected by the worm. Although there
presentative said the infections have been eliminated, Microsoft 
is still studying the issue.

Log file excerpts obtained by Newsbytes, however, indicate that 
some Hotmail servers remain infected today. Several log entries 
provided to Newsbytes show attempts by Hotmail hosts as recently as 
this afternoon to access Port 80 or the default.ida file on the 
remotesystem - telltale signs of a Code Red infection.

Statistics compiled by Dshield.org, an automated intrusion 
reporting service, indicate a number of Hotmail servers have been
infected with Code Red II, according to operator Johannes Ullrich.

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