<OT> I can't resist

[Fraser Campbell]

On Friday 27 February 2004 12:01, Garth Meisel wrote:

> So let's break that down a little:
> #1- Would have to run for 3 months to be CERTAIN to catch 99% of the
> computers in the world.  If that is even long enough.

I don't think a worm needs that much time to do massive damage.  I recall 
reading in one of the computer rags (eweek, computing canada, or some such) 
about the speed with which a particular worm spread.

I believe the worm was blaster and that the statistics stated were something 
like:

- within 15 minutes 90% of available computers were infected
- within 3 minutes the worm was scanning at a rate of 55 million ip addresses
  per second

The above numbers have no basis in fact since they are only from my memory.  
Does anyone have a reference to statistics like this?  Wish I'd saved the 
article :-(

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