(30 Jul 2001)
1. Wide shot press conference
2. Cutaway press
3. Mid shot people on stage
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ron Dick, head of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre
"Code red is the latest in the serious of worms used to attack computer systems in order to launch distributed email service attacks. The victim computers are being used without the operators' knowledge to flood a website and overload it. We are taking this worm most seriously due its ability to proliferate at a dramatic rate. The worm is reported in mid July. Thereafter several warning notices were issued. On July 19 alone the code red worm infected more that 250 thousand systems in just 9 hours."
5. Cutaway press
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ron Dick, head of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre
"We have indications that a tiny percentage of the infected machines are scanning the internet now in search of new victims. Based on the analysis of the worm there will be a tremendous surge in the worm and that the scanning of the vulnerable systems starting on July 31 at 8 PM Eastern Time will start again."
7. Wide shot of press conference
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ron Dick, head of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre
"There is a reason for concern that the mass traffic associated with the worm's propagation could degrade the overall functioning of the internet and impact ordinary users. Further although the worm has only been used for denial service attacks, an attacker can exploit the vulnerability to gain control over web server or alter or steal critical corporate or private data."
9. Wide shot press conference
STORYLINE:
The "Code Red" worm slithering through Microsoft operating systems got some exposure on Monday.
Government and corporate officials sounded the alarm against the computer bug at an emergency news conference.
The virus is believed to have effected hundreds-of-thousands of Internet-connected computers since its outbreak July 19th.
It causes widespread slowdowns and sporadic outages on the Internet.
The worm defaces Web sites with the words "Hacked by Chinese."
For the first 20 days of every month, the worm spreads.
From the 20th on, it attacks the White House Web site, trying to knock it offline.
The White House has changed its numerical Internet address to dodge the attack.
Infected computers are expected to launch another spread of "Code Red" on Tuesday night.
The FBI said that this has been the most "violent" computer virus so far.
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