Computer virus aims to attack White House site
WASHINGTON: Security experts on Friday warned of a rapidly spreading new virus designed to make computers launch attacks against the White House website.
A White House spokesman said that officials were aware of the reports and were taking unspecified "preventive" measures.
The threat of the "Code Red" virus - which attacks web servers rather than PCs - was serious enough to prompt a warning by the government-funded CERT Coordination Center and others.
CERT said that the virus "may have already affected as many as 225,000 hosts and continues to spread rapidly" and may affect the performance of some networks.
