In the mid year 2001, a PC worm generally normally alluded to as "Code Red" was released on the organization servers on July 13. It was an exceptionally subtle infection which exploited a defect in Microsoft Web Data Server.
This infection was interestingly recognized by two of the eEye Computerized Security representatives and when they learned about the infection, they were drinking Code Red Mountain Dew; thus the name "Code Red." The fascinating thing about this dangerous infection is, it didn't expect you to open an email connection or run a document; it just required a functioning web association with which it mutilates the site page you open and show a message string "Hacked by Chinese!" In under seven days "Code Red" cut down in excess of 400,000 servers including the White House web server. It's assessed that the all out harm was of roughly $2.6 billion bucks with upwards of 1,000,000 PCs hit by the infection.
These infections took advantage of a weakness in Microsoft Windows 2000 and NT, causing a cradle flood. Code Red started Disavowal of Administration assaults against White House web servers, while Code Red II opened a secondary passage for programmers to get to Windows 2000 frameworks.
Later hindered from spreading by Microsoft fix.