From: Jasper Wallace (no email)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 17:33:09 EDT
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
> In message <>, Scott Sturs
> a writes:
> >
> >On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Dave Stewart wrote:
> >
> >> I suspect we'll see it begin to pick up a little bit... it looks like
> >> Billybob is just starting to get home from work and fire up his whizbang
> >> Windows 2000 machine, which he put IIS on so he can share kewl warez and
> >> mp3z with his leet friends...
> >
> >At 1500 EDT I put a counter on one of our commodity Internet connections,
> >looking for port 80 connects to one of our unassigned /24 subnets. Here
> >are the results so far:
> >
> >1500-1530: 682
> >1530-1600: 536
> >1600-1630: 533
> >1630-1700: 643
> >
> >Seems to be picking up.
>
> Maybe -- we need more data to be sure. But -- given that a lot of
> folks have patched systems over the last two weeks -- I suspect it's
> running out of "food". Look at the graph from the last go-round at
> http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-23.html -- it leveled off, too.
> (If the Worm is operating on UTC, the "stop" phase would have commenced
> at 2000 EDT. Even if it ran on local time, Western European machines
> wouldn't quiesce until 1700. The drop off starts well before that.)
35331 so far here (from 5120 ip's of dead space), but it definatly
seems to be leveling off - graphs and data (time_t, count) here:
http://mostly.pointless.net/~jasper/cr/
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