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Old 13 August 2003, 03:14 PM
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NTL has been very slow for the last couple of evenings (600k broadband) - is anyone else suffering this? Is it because of the MSblast worm or potentially something else?


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Old 13 August 2003, 03:48 PM
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About 8% of the computers we've scanned on McAfee.com are infected with this threat. We scanned a lot of machines yesterday, that's a lot of traffic. Bear in mind that 87% of statistics are made up and I'm a compulsive liar
Old 13 August 2003, 04:06 PM
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I've noticed things are a bit slow. It could related to the Virus threat. Also noticed that sites such as the Windows Update are a little slow (can't think why). I reckon it will settle down in a day or so.

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An indication.
Old 13 August 2003, 04:19 PM
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cheers guys (Jack, you'll be pleased to hear that McAfee online has protected my machine nicely).

Glad to hear it's not just me with the slow internet!

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