A Virus called Slammer
In addition to the above - there is a serious virus out at the moment that attacks servers, it has shut down half of South East Asia, as a result traffic is re-routed and major congestion occurs. MS notified customers in July but not all took action, (amazing!).
I am no 'techie' so bear with me, but it says here that, "particularly at risk are MS SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine, Visual Studio .NET and Office XP Developer Edition.
Because some servers are shut down, either infected or for protection, there is major congestion worldwide and home users will experience difficulties due to the high volume of traffic causing saturation".
Got this from The Australian Newspaper, who also say things should soon get better.
Personally I find the worst time on this BB is around 20:30hrs here in Victoria, just as all the offices in UK start logging onto PPRuNe!!!
Last edited by BlueEagle; 29th January 2003 at 22:38.