If you've listened to the news over this weekend, they mentioned that this worm is causing much trouble on the Internet, but does NOT go into private sites, but only large corporations. Betty Sullivan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sunkist" <sunkist@attbi.com> To: <COOLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 10:52 AM Subject: [Cooley] URGENT - NOT A HOAX > Electronic attack slows Internet > > Saturday, January 25, 2003 Posted: 8:47 AM EST (1347 GMT) > > WASHINGTON (AP) -- Traffic on the many parts of the Internet slowed > dramatically for hours early Saturday, the apparent effects of a > fast-spreading, virus-like infection that overwhelmed the world's > digital pipelines and interfered with Web browsing and delivery of > e-mail. > > . . . . . . > > The virus-like attack, which began about > 12:30 a.m. EST, sought out vulnerable > computers on the Internet to infect using a > known flaw in popular database software > from Microsoft Corp., called "SQL Server > 2000." But the attacking software code > was scanning for victim computers so > randomly and so aggressively -- sending > out thousands of probes each second -- > that it overwhelmed many Internet data > pipelines. > > "This is like Code Red all over again," > said Marc Maiffret, an executive with eEye > Digital Security, whose engineers were among the > earliest to study samples of the > attack software. "The sheer number of attacks is > eating up so much bandwidth that > normal operations can't take place." > > "The impact of this worm was huge," agreed Ben Koshy > of W3 International Media > Ltd., which operates thousands of Web sites from its > computers in Vancouver. "It's a > very significant attack." > > > ==== COOLEY Mailing List ==== > Support free volunteer genealogy. Contribute your data and your time. For details see: > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html/ > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >