On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:51:53AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:36:02AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > > It's still amazing that a random host was punched 40 times... > > I'm keeping an eye on 4 machines with visible IP addresses and, although > 40 is a touch high, it seems to be about average at this stage. My boxes > run from 19 to 55 and most other people seem to be reporting either high > 30s or mid 50s. (Very few 40s though - probably because the ones in the > 50s are on the original version's random number list, while only the new > strains are hitting the hosts with smaller numbers of hits.) > > In any case, is it really that amazing when there are 240,000+ infected > boxes probing 100 addresses at a time? It's the premise amazing, not the consequence. One would expect those hundreds of thousands web servers to be patched by now. florin -- "If it's not broken, is because you are not fixing it enough." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4