[ThirdMate]

"One question the supervisor at the grid station had was, why didn't the computers in Canada and NY stop the problem there?"

Now we are getting somewhere. The computers could not respond because they were infected.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Could be... when they are 'self-rebooting' every few minutes, and the networks are sluggish, it tends to cut the reaction time just a tad...

I got a figure from a friend at AT&T today - they had 8,000 computers affected by MSBlast yesterday - 8000! And that was just AT&T Wireless' Internal Help Centers...