Stardate 20010815.1258 (Crew, this is the Captain): Either Code Red is resurgent, or there's something new out there which just hit the big time. My activity here has been through the roof all morning. I get a fair number of spurious blips all the time, but usually it's at the rate of one or two per second. But all morning I've been getting blipped fifteen or more times per second. It's consuming downstream bandwidth but with my cable modem that's immense and it isn't affecting performance. Still, we'll see if anything appears on the news. My desktop PC's firewall shows just a bazillion computers out there attempting to access the HTTP port. (My desktop PC doesn't run a server.) What I wonder is whether there are a bunch of people scanning to find Code Red 2 infected systems to take control of.
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