Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2003 12:34 pm**

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Traffic on many parts of the Internet slowed dramatically early Saturday, the apparent effects of a fast-spreading, virus-like infection overwhelming the world's digital pipelines and interfering with Web browsing and delivery of e-mail.

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www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/25/in ... index.html

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2003 3:53 pm**

Hm, interesting...

Posted: **Sat Jan 25, 2003 7:31 pm**

Hmmm. maybe that explains why I was running so slow. heh, I cleared my cache and restarted after the third page I was looking at timed out.

Posted: **Tue Jan 28, 2003 7:08 pm**

When I got into work on Sunday afternoon they had just revived the computer sytem, it had crashed Saturday from the worm. Not good in a hospital where every patient record from nursing notes to doctor's orders to diets to labs to pharmacy orders/records are all stored/formed electronically. What a mess!!
I am not a violent person, but I think I could punch the hackers in the nose right now. Don't these idiots realize that they can kill people with their crap???

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2003 10:21 am**

Yeah. My computer got hacked into by this kid from somewhere in the middle east. I now have like 20 firewalls and virus protection things.

Kevin's Watch

Internet traffic hit by electronic attack

Internet traffic hit by electronic attack