WASHINGTON — The virus-like Code Red II computer worm has spread this week to affect thousands of home and business computers nationwide. The worm disrupted some Associated Press services delivered by the Internet Wednesday.
The AP outage didn’t affect transmission of AP’s main news and photo services, which are delivered by satellite.
The worm is a program that scans rapidly for vulnerable computers to infect and overload. It can also quickly affect computers linked to a computer it initially targets.
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