Thousands of servers connected to the Internet have been compromised by a recently discovered worm, the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT) and security Web site Attrition.org said Thursday.

"We´ve received reports from over 100 sites. These indicate that several thousand Web sites running (Microsoft Corp.´s) Internet Information Server (IIS) software were defaced and that over 200 Solaris machines were compromised," CERT Internet Security Analyst Chad Dougherty said.

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