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Re: Hard data on network impact of the "Code Red" worm?

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Mon Jul 30 12:51:24 2001 
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 04:16:12 PDT, Sean Donelan <[email protected]>  said:

> I would agree those people may have been severely affected.  But 350,000
> hosts isn't that big of a number any more.  The Morris Internet Worm

That's 350K hosts that got infected *that we know about*.  I'd not be
surprised if a lot of other hosts got infected during the 9 hours CRv2
was on its burn stage that didn't happen to ping any of the sensor boxes
used to identify infected hosts.
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				Valdis Kletnieks
				Operating Systems Analyst
				Virginia Tech

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