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Re: Code Red growth stats

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Wed Aug 01 16:39:39 2001

In message <[email protected]>, Petr Swedock writes:

>
>
>There's no indication on how the stats are collected... Is it by IP
>addr reported? Does it take into account duplicates (re-infection
>rates?) 
>
While they don't say, the "number of infected hosts" graph makes me 
assume that they're counting unique IP addresses that tried to hit them.

As I said, my numbers are consistent with others posted here.  And I've 
gotten private mail about another, similar observation -- Code Red, 
Round 2, appears to have peaked a few hours ago.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb