Did you or your firm get the Nimda virus?

[Anonymous]

Did you?

[Bolt]

Nope, just allergic rhinitis right now. d*mn ragweed.

[Actuary321]

Mine did, had to rebuild one computer. And they shut down the internet and email until all computers were updated with new virus defs.

[IHope2Pass]

I got it at home last night... McAfee identified it immediately and saved me a lot of head ache.

NICE JOB MCAFEE!!! :smile:

[Hierophant]

No, but my website got over 10,000 hits one month from attempted Nimda attacks. This compares to about 1,000 or so from the Code Red attacks. (My host doesn't run NT, so the attacks had no effect.)

The Nimda hits have slowed down remarkably; I think they are more responsive to finding and stopping this now. In contrast, it took several months for the Code Red hits to slow down.

[Crystal Dragon.]

in a word... 'pounded'

[Hierophant]

Follow up:

The Nimda hits have trailed off considerably, down to about 1,500 this month.

It looks like Nimda disrupted the search engine servers, because the number of hits from search engines had dropped significantly, and are now starting to increase again.

[Mind if I do a J?]

A previously unbumped 2001 thread. That's gold Jerry, gold!

[Mind if I do a J?]

Oh, to stay on topic. No, I did not suffer from the Nimda virus.