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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."
yes indeed, I can see u feeling it. Man ! it seems your server is takin it all. This is completely out of interest, what are you running your server on. I want to know how much it takes for a server to getting hit like this. Can you share with us all from the web logs how your server took this 'code /. ' ;)
http://tools.waglo.com:8888/codered.wmv for a quick and dirty conversion. I think it's mpeg4 now - did it with windows media encoder. Let me know how well it works. You might have to right-click, shift-click, wait-click to get the video instead of binary goo in your browser. Like I said, it's a quick and dirty convertion. Oh, and it's 400k, little more manageable. I'm only going to leave it temporarely up though.
...and it was quite a bit of fun riding skateboards around the corporate HQ at 2:30am in the morning...
As opposed to 2:30am in the afternoon?
Hey kids, there's only 5 days left 'til Yak Shaving Day!