SQL wormy was the fastest spreading worm ever

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Aron Schatz
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February 6, 2003
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10 minutes from start to boom! Interesting how a worm can damage the entire internet that fast. And it is a shame, ARPANET was made so that if a server or more fell, the network would remain up.

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The worm, which nearly cut off Web access in South Korea and shut down some U.S. bank teller machines, doubled the number of computers it infected every 8.5 seconds in the first minute of its appearance, said a computer security research group led by the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis. By comparison, the Code Red worm -- which came 18 months earlier -- only doubled every 37 minutes.

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