Uhm, Is Everything All Right?

September 19, 2001 6:11 PM

Uhm, Is Everything All Right? "Everything is under control. Situation normal. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?" That can't be right, can it?
posted by yerfatma (13 comments total)

I expect what you're seeing is overload caused by NIMDA. My server activity is through the roof and nearly all of it is bogus.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 6:18 PM on September 19, 2001

Eh?
posted by Down10 at 6:18 PM on September 19, 2001

I expect what you're seeing is overload caused by NIMDA.

That's what I was wondering. It seemed like people were locking it down pretty well today, but all of a sudden sites were either not coming up or not displaying any images.
posted by yerfatma at 6:25 PM on September 19, 2001

What yerfatma said.
posted by lucien at 6:32 PM on September 19, 2001

Umm...Han Solo, is that you?
posted by mirla at 6:34 PM on September 19, 2001

First time I've seen Australia with Internet access times as good as the US.
posted by krisjohn at 6:47 PM on September 19, 2001

It's changed. Now I have missing time. I must have been abducted by Invader Zim.
posted by krisjohn at 6:50 PM on September 19, 2001

That's gotta be an error, the lowest I've ever seen it go was 27, and that was during the peak of code red.
posted by statusquo at 6:53 PM on September 19, 2001

I just fired up my Unreal Tournament server, that's why.
posted by machaus at 6:57 PM on September 19, 2001

Znet: Nimda's latest victim.
posted by RJ Reynolds at 7:41 PM on September 19, 2001

i just spent 20 hours (most of which = downtime) fighting off that fucking Nimda. and even though our servers are now clean, we're still getting hammered by others trying to infect us. what a nightmare. long live apache! and all that..
posted by afx114 at 8:06 PM on September 19, 2001

I didn't see just a low number, earlier (about a couple hours ago.).. I saw a 0. ur? i was scared, but realized immediately, it couldn't have been that bad, considering i got to the page in the first place.
posted by lotsofno at 8:52 PM on September 19, 2001

Check out Trend's virus map. Nimda is of course number one, but look at the amazing staying power of loveletter, its #3!

"Hey look someone in the office loves me, again!"
posted by skallas at 10:31 PM on September 19, 2001