| MyDoom Worm; Update for Reporters from
Keynote, 01/29/04
Internet performance appeared
to perform in the range of normal today, except for
the jump in page download
times that occurred earlier in the week when the
MyDoom worm was at its height.
Lloyd Taylor, Keynote's VP of Technology, has been
telling journalists today that there is the possibility,
read possibility, that something major could occur
on Sunday, February 1, as this worm appears to be more
sophisticated than the SoBig virus. Lloyd has not commented
in great detail on the likelihood of performance degradation
one way or the other. We are taking a wait and see
attitude. Keynote will be watching closely on Sunday,
as stated in previous emails on this topic.
A number of reporters have inquired about the performance
of SCO's Web site this week as they are the target
for the worm's denial of service attack. Below is today's
analysis on the performance of SCO's Web site over
the last 24 hours.
It appears that SCO is having problems with some of
the content on their main page. A graph of performance
that does not count content errors as site errors shows
fairly significant performance and availability issues:
http://web504.keynote.com/mykeynote/Post/KB40data_012904_114514.asp.
Performance is still problematic, but the site remains
sporadically available.
Note that content errors may or may not make a page
unusable to the real end user. For example, if the
missing content is a spacer or a button image, the
page can still be useful to a real person. However,
if a navigation image (such as a pixmap) is missing,
the page could be useless to that same end user. Keynote's
measurements allow missing content to be interpreted
either as a content error (least effect on reported
page performance) or as a page error (most effect on
reported page performance), depending on the needs
of the customer.
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