Measuring The Worm
8 February 2003
A week ago the Internet slowed to a crawl for a lot of people. The cause turned out to be the Slammer worm. It was an incredibly fast-spreading virus of the ”worm” variety. Here’s what CNET News had to say:
The worm infected more than 90 percent of vulnerable computers within 10 minutes, opening a new era of fast-spreading viruses on the Internet. The SQL Slammer worm-also known as Sapphiredoubled in size every 8.5 seconds when it first appeared, and reached the full rate at which it was scanning for vulnerable computersa rate of more than 55 million scans per second-after about three minutes.
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— Quarterman Lee 15 February 2003, 15:10 #