From the Dark Side--Code Red II Warning for PCs

From an Excite News article,

"Computer security experts warned Sunday of the spread of a variant of the Code Red worm that infected computers around the world last week.

The new strain, named Code Red II, attacks the same Internet-connected computers that were vulnerable to Code Red. Instead of just defacing Web sites and attempting to spread itself, however, the new worm leaves a "back door" open on infected computers.

"This makes the computer available to whoever wants to get in," said Russ Cooper, surgeon general for TruSecure Corp., a computer security firm. "Anyone who finds one of these boxes can do anything they want to it."

Code Red II began spreading around the Internet Saturday morning."

Another reason to own a Mac and use Mac OS X Server. [Dana Baggett]

-- Weekend, August 4-5 --

[Update] Nightly Mozilla for Mac OS X Builds Can Have Gotcha's: From Dana Baggett, "I have downloaded the nightly trunk builds for Mozilla [for Mac OS X]. (I think "Fizzilla" may not be a name still in vogue.) I get an error message when attempting to access my mail and the mail gets lost! Earlier builds work fine. Mozilla.org continues to remind us that these are test builds - particularly the nightly ones - and shouldn't be used for mission-critical purposes. NTL, I use mine all the time. :-) "