> It is probably the Code Red worm. Last night on some
> news show on the Tech TV channel they mentioned that
> the worm was hitting Qwest's DSL modems, mistaking
> them
> for web servers. Didn't say if it was on the user
> end or Qwest's end. I've heard from some other people
> with @home that they've had to reset their cable
> modems quite often lately. Hopefully soon they'll
> all get fixes out to ignore worms like that.

On the user end, what is getting hammered are the external Cisco DSL
routers, (675/678 models). The problems go away when you disable web access
to the router in CBOS.


Jeffrey Garbacz
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www.junkyardjeff.com



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