Internet users may wake up to a sluggish computer this morning as the voracious Code Red virus starts to infect computers around the world. At midnight in New Zealand, the virus, which disrupted United States Government websites last week, then went into dormancy, was expected to begin multiplying again as computer clocks turned over to August 1.
Code Red virus is coming our way
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