From: Stephen J. Wilcox (no email)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 16:28:49 EDT
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I ran a little script on the totals reported by www.incidents.org,
> calculating the ratio between successive samples. (The latest graph I
> could find, as of 1615 EDT, ended at 1400 EDT.) There was a period of
> steady exponential growth in there, but it seems to be tailing off.
> That's consistent with another report posted here.
Does anyone have any theories as to why its tailing, are the thousands of
vulnerable machines being patched all of a sudden? If not then why is
traffic decreasing so fast when the worm just keeps searching?
Steve
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