From: Joe Blanchard (no email)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 16:38:59 EDT
Not sure. I do know that I have been informing the EDUs that seem to have
multiple nodes infected and actually am getting a response from them that
they are being fixed.
Don't know.
-Joe
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> From: Stephen J. Wilcox[SMTP:]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 1:28 PM
> To: Steven M. Bellovin
> Cc: k claffy;
> Subject: Re: Code Red growth stats
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> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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> > 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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