In message <Pine.SOL.3.93.1010801170555.4987V-100000@acns.fsu.edu>, Scott Sturs a writes:
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Dave Stewart wrote:
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...
At 1500 EDT I put a counter on one of our commodity Internet connections, looking for port 80 connects to one of our unassigned /24 subnets. Here are the results so far:
1500-1530: 682 1530-1600: 536 1600-1630: 533 1630-1700: 643
Seems to be picking up.
Maybe -- we need more data to be sure. But -- given that a lot of folks have patched systems over the last two weeks -- I suspect it's running out of "food". Look at the graph from the last go-round at http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-23.html -- it leveled off, too. (If the Worm is operating on UTC, the "stop" phase would have commenced at 2000 EDT. Even if it ran on local time, Western European machines wouldn't quiesce until 1700. The drop off starts well before that.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb