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September 1, 2001

A U.S. government study has concluded that the Code Red worm probably originated in a university in Guangdong, China. A non-government research organization, Computer Economics, estimated that the cost of cleaning up Code Red damage was $2.6 billion ($1.1 billion for inspecting and cleaning servers and $1.5 in lost productivity when servers were down.) This was based on an estimate of some one million servers were infected.