De vertraging van het internet vorige maand was niet te weiten aan Code Red maar aan een trein die ontspoorde in een tunnel en die een aantal kabel vernietigde. Lees meer op
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1470000/1470246.stm :
"On 18 July just as Code Red was starting to scan for vulnerable web servers, a CSX train carrying hazardous materials was derailed in the Howard Street tunnel in Baltimore.
The derailment and subsequent fire severed cables running through the tunnel used by seven of the biggest net service providers to swap data.
These companies started reporting disruption to the usual running of the net just as Code Red was hitting its stride, leading many people to assume that the worm was doing the damage.
Analysis by Keynote has shown that even at its height, Code Red posed no threat to the running of the net.
"The 19 July Internet Slowdown was NOT due to the worm," it said bluntly in a statement.
"There was no exponential ramp-up of performance degradation during the day or preceding days that would have coincided with the proliferation of the worm," it said, "but a sudden spike in performance that coincided with the time of the train wreck."
Similarly when the worm started scanning again yesterday it did not disrupt the working of the internet.
"We see no significant performance changes on either high or low bandwidth connections, or internationally," said Keynote. "
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