Hard data on network impact of the "Code Red" worm?

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As several government agencies gear up today to get additional funding,
what hard data about the impact of the code read worm on the Internet
exists? CAIDA posted some data about the speed of infection. But I
was looking at overall Internet performance during the time period.
The worm tended to revisit the same systems over, and over again, so
I would agree those people may have been severely affected. But 350,000
hosts isn't that big of a number any more. The Morris Internet Worm
infected an estimated 10% of the internet hosts of the day.

What do you think had more world-wide impact on the Internet?

   1. The train accident in Baltimore
   2. The "code red" worm

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That's 350K hosts that got infected *that we know about*. I'd not be
surprised if a lot of other hosts got infected during the 9 hours CRv2
was on its burn stage that didn't happen to ping any of the sensor boxes
used to identify infected hosts.

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i think the interesting record here is that, for maybe the first time,
the mass of an email virus is significantly greater than the mass of
seemingly endless and repetitive discussion about it.

so far ...

randy

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i think the interesting record here is that, for maybe the first time,
the mass of an email virus is significantly greater than the mass of
seemingly endless and repetitive discussion about it.

I wonder... how many people are on this list ? How much internet traffic
does one message really generate?

I just received an "URGENT" MS Security Advisory (I have never seen one
labeled as URGENT in the past). There is apparenlty a new mutation that is
to go out today :frowning:

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Randy,

Aren't you mixing up "Code Red" with the Sircam Worm ?