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."

Comments

What about Morris?

[sconeu]

Servers running Internet Information Services from Microsoft were propagating this worm across the Internet faster than anything has up to then or since

Granted, the 'Net was a lot smaller, but what about the Morris worm?

times out

[bilbobuggins]

To really appreciate the spread of this program, look at this animated image.

Is it slashdotted or is that the demonstration?
;)