Slapper worm smarting less

“A Linux worm that started spreading a week ago has reached a plateau after infecting about 7,000 servers and turning the hosts into a peer-to-peer network that could be used to attack other computers.

Known as Linux.Slapper.Worm, Slapper and Apache/mod_ssl, the worm’s spread has fallen far short of the biggest attackers in recent times. For example, Code Red infected 400,000 servers last summer.”