Code Red growth stats
Steven M. Bellovin
smb at research.att.com
Wed Aug 1 20:36:22 UTC 2001
In message <200108012026.QAA29111 at thelonius.ai.mit.edu>, Petr Swedock writes:
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>There's no indication on how the stats are collected... Is it by IP
>addr reported? Does it take into account duplicates (re-infection
>rates?)
>
While they don't say, the "number of infected hosts" graph makes me
assume that they're counting unique IP addresses that tried to hit them.
As I said, my numbers are consistent with others posted here. And I've
gotten private mail about another, similar observation -- Code Red,
Round 2, appears to have peaked a few hours ago.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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