With any luck Code Red will be a non-event just like Y2K. It's early still but I've only got 6 replication threads that have made it to my site so far, and 5 were from the same machine.

One of the other odd web requests hitting my server turns out to be a little feature in IE, which of course I was unaware of since I live on the other side. If somebody bookmarks the site, it pokes around for an icon (in McSoft proprietary format, of course) to display in a file listing. Not that I have any great desire to spread McSoft proprietary garbage, but I'm tired of having this show up as an error. So you folks now have an icon. Hope it's not on your work computer...

Three days worth of email all showed up in my mailbox this AM. These troubles have nothing to do with the worm. My upstream providor just had a clogged mail server and it took forever to work through. I knew this was happening already as I often Bcc myself on my own messages and many of them just showed up as well. Don't know if it still has problems. But if you wrote me in the last 2-3 days and didn't get a reply, it's likely I'm just looking at it now.

Didn't see anything about Central Expressway in the news the other day. However here's where it pays to have a website... my friend Joe (who works in one of the local emergency services) writes:

It was a motorcycle v. 2 autos that included a fire and an
extrication....and yeah, that CAN shut down even the median....

The worm does seem to have picked up a bit of speed throughout the day. It's close to midnight now and I've currently been probed by 19 affected sites. Yawn. It's exponential though and we've got twenty days of attack left in this cycle. Too early to declare victory. The Morris worm of 88 was much more virulent. Boy that was a fun day. Those of us trying to stop it had to use the phone and try and alert every human we knew on the continent who managed network servers because we had to unplug most of the routers to keep from being reinfected. Kids today.... no respect.