I don't know if the number of hits on my machine
is a direct correlation of activity across the
web, but for whatever it's worth, the first week
of Aug:
Date Total CRI CRII
1 Aug 15 15 0
2 Aug 23 23 0
3 Aug 30 30 0
4 Aug 36 36 0
5 Aug 85 9 76
6 Aug 117 6 111
7 Aug 126 18 108
In an earlier message, I downplayed the impact
Code Red has on the net in general. It's not just
the requests it sends out and the error messages
generated as a result. In fact, that's just a minor
part of the bandwidth the worm wastes. More
significant is the huge number of arp packets
generated as the worm searches for new machines to
infect.
Judging by all the clueless twits posting on
microsoft.public.inetserver.iis, I have to think
this worm is going to be around for a long time.
<sigh>
- Steve
