[Gllug] Code Red worm sleeps?

[French, Alastair]

You would have thought the BBC would read there own information wouldn't
you. They state in the article below

"The worm reportedly spends two-thirds of every month looking for new
machines to infect and the rest of the time using these machines to bombard
the site of the White House, with bogus data packets. For the last few days
of every month, it lies dormant. "
Does this not imply that the virus would be dormant up until last night and
then spread from today, with the "bombardment" starting later in the month.
I believe that the start date for this is around the 19th of the month as
discussed a couple of weeks ago on this very list.

Alastair


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gordon Joly [SMTP:gordon.joly at pobox.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 01, 2001 8:04 AM
> To:	gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject:	[Gllug] Code Red worm sleeps?
> 
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1466000/1466588.stm
> 
> <quot>
> 
> The Code Red worm computer bug has had no immediately visible effect 
> on the internet, security experts say.
> 
> </quot>
> 
> The very same security experts who predicting doom and gloom 72 hours ago?
> 
> And yes it is Internet (shame that the BBC cannot spell). There is 
> only on Internet hence a capital "I"
> 
> But the BBC also believed that the millennium began on 2000-01-01 
> rather than 2001-01-01... I think they took the majority view rather 
> than what the nice people who work at Greenwich said..... more 
> dumbing down?
> 
> Gordo
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