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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Code Red is a type of ____
A
An Antivirus Program
B
A photo editing software
C
A computer virus
D
A video editing software
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Code Red was a computer worm observed on the Internet on July 15, 2001. It attacked computers running Microsoft’s IIS web server. It was the first large-scale, mixed-threat attack to successfully target enterprise networks.

Detailed explanation-2: -Code Red Code Red is a worm, which is a computer attack that propagates through networks without user intervention. This particular worm makes use of a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software-specifically, a buffer overflow.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cod Red is a type of Computer virus that was first discovered on 15 July in 2001 as it attacks the servers of Microsoft. In a couple of next days, it infects almost 300, 000 servers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Code Red was a worm that targeted Windows-based systems with Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services for Windows Server) installed. Its story has a happy beginning at least: the spread of the malware was detected right at the start of the outbreak.

Detailed explanation-5: -virus (computer virus) A computer virus is malicious code that replicates by copying itself to another program, computer boot sector or document and changes how a computer works. A virus spreads between systems after some type of human intervention.

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