Code Red Worm Infecting Servers Using Microsoft Software

according to this News.Com article. "Known as the 'Code Red' worm because of evidence that it may have been launched from China, the self-spreading program infects servers using unpatched versions of Microsoft's Internet Information Server software and defaces the Web sites hosted by the servers." The Code Red Worm causes the infected server to attack the domain whitehouse.gov with a denial of service ping attack among other things. Here is a News.Com update. [This story initially broke during last week's Macworld.]