Happy Birthday Code Red

totallygeek writes: "One year ago today (July 19, 2001), more than 359,000 computers were infected with the Code Red worm in less than 14 hours. At the peak of infection, more than 2,000 new machines were infected each minute. Servers running Internet Information Services from Microsoft were propagating this worm across the Internet faster than anything has up to then or since. For the first time, systems running the Apache web server were getting requests for a document called "default.ida". Here we are a year later, and my web log shows an average of forty-two requests per day for default.ida over the last five days. To really appreciate the spread of this program, look at this animated image."

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Re:All of this kvetching about bad sysadmins, and

[I_redwolf]

No, not with my tax dollars. Microsoft fucks up, microsoft pays; not me or the "public". If it's about public interest then hold microsoft responsible and let them make the fix or make them hire a 3rd party to do so. However using my tax dollars to fix an inept companies fuckup is not whats gonna happen.