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Worms Going Further, Faster

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-for-your-attention dept.

Major Byte writes "Rob Kolstad's MOTD (pdf) column in Usenix login; passes along a few distilled factiods from a CAIDA analysis of the 'Sappire/Slammer' Worm. When it was at full blast it was scanning over 3 billion systems per hour--a speed that 'a "better" vulnerability would have enabled infection of the entire internet in 15 minutes, a "flash worm" or a "Warhol Worm."' I think 'better' to mean 'able to infect across a lot of platforms.'"

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  1. woooooo by ReLik · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    woooooo i rock!!!

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  2. NOW LET'S ALL GET DRUNK AND PLAY PINGPONG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yay!

  3. Rob Kolstad: Fucking tool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I mean, shit! Look at the picture of this guy. I'll bet his belly smells like semen (wiped away with a sock after jacking off to yearbook pictures).

    Is it possible to be in this industry and not look like a fucking troll?

    1. Re:Rob Kolstad: Fucking tool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Wow, that was graphic. So graphic I think you must have witnessed this personally.

  4. APPLE IS FOR FAGOTZ AND HOMOS AND CMDRTACO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  5. I thought ... by drdale · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... that this would be a story about the worms that went into space on Columbia (and survived the tragedy).

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  6. CAN WE DO IT NUDE ?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    huh? huh ? can we

  7. Re:FP by HellKrisp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What kind of a monkey?