By: Eunice Lyn E. Balandra

   What should you do if you find out that your computer has been hit by a one computer virus?  In our generations as of today many virus comes out and able to damage some of our files, data, and also our computers.

CODE RED WORMS à  is one of the top ten viruses, a very serious threats in our computer. This virus attacked to the computers that run in the Microsoft’s Internet Information System(IIS) it was the bad day   on the Friday the 13^th  in July of 2001 that this virus come out in their computer. The CODE RED WORM  was first discovered and researched by eEye Digital Security employees Marc Maiffret and Ryan Permeh. It has been knowned that this virus was named Code Red because they were drinking over at the  time a new drink by Mountain Dew, Code Red. They analyzed that the named Code Red originated from China and have a phrase message: 

    Many experts and authorities worlwide are trying to determine who is responsible for creating a Code Red Worm/Virus. However, many speculations that the worm is started in China at the Universty of Guangdong, China. This worm is the most expensive worms in Internet history , with the damages estimated at $2 billion and at rate of $200 million damages per day.

   The Code Red worms works attacks their victim host to see if TCP ports 80 is active, it sends especially constructed HTTP get request to the victim, the Code red worm starts to run on the victim system by infecting the virus finds the files, and then the victim host got a English language message.

This worms interprets this string follow the last ‘N’ due to a overflow  to the computer  instructions:

                  GET /default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

         NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

         NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

         NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

         NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

         NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

          NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

          %u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801

          %u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3

          %u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0

   Viruses are not the work of the nature but it is the product of human minds. The inventors of the viruses has a brilliant minds, they  do this just for fun, for revenge, or for accidentally made. We all know that the viruses can paralyzed our computer and  very dangerous because they can damage our files, data, cost money and time for the people who are infected of this  viru. So that, it is very important to us to have a backup to store our files, and with viruses like Code Red Worm/virus  we won’t make sure that in our computer will permanently safe from the CODE RED WORM/VIRUS.

References:

http://virus.wikia.com/wiki/CodeRed

http://rsmontilla.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/famous-computer-viruses/