Code Red Worm-what the hell?

[SDP]

If it was exactly 3 weeks ago when your DSL service went out, it might not have been Code Red. I think its first day of operation was July 12:

On Thursday, July 12, things were going smoothly at the Black Hat Security Briefings in Las Vegas, where several hundred consultants in the computer-security industry hobnobbed with one another. The day before, one researcher had predicted that worms would continue to threaten the Internet.

Most considered it an obvious conclusion.
Unknown to the attendees, however, that day a program had started infecting computers running Microsoft’s Internet Information Server. The servers had a security hole that had been discovered the month before, leaving them open to attack if not repaired with Microsoft’s specific software patch. . . .

(from http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-6658647-0.html?tag=tp_pr)

July 12 was not exactly 3 weeks ago, but it was darn close, so I figured you (wishbone) were just approximating.

It is also strange that it is still knocked out. The only computers that are currently trying to propagate this are ones with erroneous system clocks. If your service is out continuously (as in, cycling the power on the router doesn’t make it work again), it probably isn’t Code Red. If, however, a “router reboot” fixes the problem, only to have it get knocked out again, then it fits the worm’s pattern.