On Wednesday 01 August 2001 08:29 am, you wrote: > This hit my inbox this morning: > > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/08/01/010801hnnomelt.xml?0801al >e rt > > Summary: > It looks like it woke up, but it's too early to see the damage. > M$ says 200,000 copies of patch downloaded on Sunday-Monday, but some are > by Win9X users who thought they needed it. > NA scanned 20,000 IIS servers and 1230 were still unprotected. (so about 5% > which = about 300,000 machines, _if_ you can extrapolate the number) > Some guy at Matrix.net is blaming a teenager for it ?? "My guess is, like so many of the disruptive things on the Internet over the last 3 or 4 years, this is almost a teenage prank kind of thing," said Salus of Matrix.Net. "There are a lot of bright kids out there; unfortunately some of them are bored." sounds like he's not blaming a 'teenager', he is equating the worm with a 'teenage prank kind of thing' Hell I wish I was capable of such malicious mischief when I was just a teenager -Rudie