Code Red Virus

Yesterday at 1pm (Or 1am) UK time, remembering we're around 5 - 6 hours
ahead of the US, a new virus was released in the US called Code Red. Within
hours Microsoft had got to work on a patch after recieving thousands of
emails about it. The virus is designed to cause maximum damage to the
internet, not really your computer. It waits in your MEMORY, not the disk,
so all you need do is turn your computer off, wait a few minutes just to be
sure, then turn it back on. I don't kno why they person didn't write it to
store itself on the hard disk. They were worried as the virus spreads very
easily, I'm not sure how though, probably through email. All the virus does
is slow down your internet access. I guess it either does something to the
modem or tries sending a bunch of pings to things like search engines to
slow them down as well. Combine a few big servers and target one search
engine, bombard it with useless junk and you can almost stop it. Combine a
few hundred thousand or even millions of normal computers and you have some
serious stopping power. Anyhow, just thought you might want to know. Since
the virus waits in the RAM it won't need to install itself I don't think so
avoid emails from people you don't know for a while.

John