Re: Code Red growth stats

[Dave Stewart <dbs () ntrnet net>]

At 04:28 PM 8/1/2001, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

> Does anyone have any theories as to why its tailing, are the thousands of
> vulnerable machines being patched all of a sudden? If not then why is
> traffic decreasing so fast when the worm just keeps searching?

I suspect we'll see it begin to pick up a little bit... it looks like 
Billybob is just starting to get home from work and fire up his whizbang 
Windows 2000 machine, which he put IIS on so he can share kewl warez and 
mp3z with his leet friends...

I'm seeing more probes from Roadrunner and @Home hosts in the last little 
while.