posted on July 29, 2001 06:42:26 PM
Did anyone else not get their Paypal or BillPoint e-mail notifications around July 19th due to the Code Red worm? I had a few buyers e-mail me wondering about their order. After I checked my Paypal and BillPoint accounts around that time, there were a few payments that never made it to my Inbox.
I'm afraid when the worm strikes again July 31st that this may happen again:
SANS Security Alert:
"On July 19, the Code Red worm infected more than 250,000 systems in just 9 hours. The worm scans the Internet, identifies vulnerable systems, and infects these systems by installing itself. Each newly installed worm joins all the others causing the rate of scanning to grow rapidly. This uncontrolled growth in scanning directly decreases the speed of the Internet and can cause sporadic but widespread outages among all types of systems. Code Red is likely to start spreading again on July 31st, 2001 8:00 PM EDT and has mutated so that it may be even more dangerous. This spread has the potential to disrupt business and personal use of the Internet for applications such as electronic commerce, email and entertainment."
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[ edited by sun818 on Jul 29, 2001 06:43 PM ]
posted on July 29, 2001 06:50:27 PM
Well I never get my Billpoint notices anyhow,nothing new about that.I have to check my account several times a day to see if a payment has been received.Does no good to contact E-Bay,they fix it and you have the same problem again in a day or two.
