worm attack

I find no problem with internet speed today. Saturday it was quite slow and some sites I visit could not be opened.
 
The virus hit South Korea particularly hard because it has the world´s highest penetration of broadband Internet services, which are up to 100 times faster than dial-up modem services. The government gave no estimates for losses, but the association representing Korean insurers said it would have to pay out some one billion won ($860,000). The Seoul stock market´s benchmark KOSPI index finished down 2.7 percent to its lowest close in more than three months. Volumes hit a 13-month low. Online stock trading accounts for more than two thirds of market turnover in South Korea, where people regularly click a mouse to pay taxes, order pizza and buy clothes. The fallout was felt in some Asian stock markets, but because the virus struck on a weekend the impact was limited. Financial markets in Korea saw steep falls in shares of Internet service providers and gains for Web security firms.
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www.msnbc.com/news/864184.asp
 
Are you sure? Here is MUCH slower today.

:p


Quote from taodr:

I find no problem with internet speed today. Saturday it was quite slow and some sites I visit could not be opened.
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Quote from Harry123:
To the person who posted that the DNS servers were expired with Realtick...could you please tell me exactly what this impacts?
For example will it impact our financial recordds with them..aka how much money we have with them? Are our balances going to be all screwed up? etc etc. Thks.
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no-no, it's not as bad as it sounds -- DNS records are totally separate thing from the actual data the servers hold.

DNS records are basically "business-cards" for computers on the internet that allow other machines to "call them up" by name (eg "www.realtick.com") as opposed to IP number (eg "63.215.120.26"). if you let them to expire, you're company is basically "wiped off the net" (which actually makes your data more secure, because accessing it from outside becomes harder... :) )

anyhow, looks like RT/TAL recovered pretty nicely from this -- on sunday afternoon (european time) i was happily downloading historical data from them already.

- jaan
 
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