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Computer users face high-profile threats from multiple sources.
Computer users continue to face attacks on two fronts as the impersonal Code Red worm persists in infecting Web servers and the extremely personal Sircam virus keeps replicating in e-mail in-boxes worldwide.
Code Red doesn't directly attack PCs, but it has the potential to impact online access and Web site performance, according to security experts who have seen more than 200,000 additional Web servers hit by the latest round of Code Red infestation.
During the first wave, which began in mid-July, the worm infected about 250,000 servers running Microsoft's Internet Information Service software. Code Red's wild card is what will happen when it is due to switch to attack mode on August 20.
The bug exploits an easily corrected flaw in the IIS software. There have been more than 1 million downloads of the patch that Microsoft developed to fix the problem, which is unique to servers running versions 4.0 and 5.0 of the IIS program.
Code Red Still Threatens
"As much as we would like to, we still...