Web Hosting Problems: Site Reports back "Hacked by the Chinese".

If your web site intermittently responds "Hacked by the Chinese!" then you have the Red Worm virus.

This virus attacks IIS through a known Index Server bug which was fixed long before the virus came out. However if you aren't a BitShop customer chances are you found out your system wasn't patched in a timely manner; we'd recommend you check out BitShop's full range of solutions for providing reliable Windows 2000 Web Hosting. Back to the virus..

Luckily this virus doesn't actually wipe out the data on the server, it only reports this page to users.

In order to fix your server you will need the patch from Microsoft available at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.aspx?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-033.aspx (New Window)

You can read more information from CERT at http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-19.html

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