News Business Technology State Sports AP Sports AP National AP World AP Search Today'n Hist. That s because the original Code Red and later variants had virtually no effect on the Windows PCs typically found in the home. Instead, the worms targeted more powerful Windows boxes used for dishing up Web sites in the corporate world. Consumers aren t out of the woods, though.
Recent attacks show that viruses are getting harder to keep at bay and harder to kill.
What s more, consumers can t assume that anti-virus software, by itself, will protect them. Then came Nimba, the latest nuisance computer worm that started to plague networks around the world last week. Virus experts implored people to install software updates to stop the rogue program. Officials said Nimba was capable of attacking both business and personal computers running Microsoft Corp. s Windows 95 and newer operating systems via e-mail attachments and infected Web sites. And Code Red remains active to this day and has proven maddeningly difficult to eradicate.