The Volume of Interactions (AizuddinDanian.com) was inaccessible from Malaysia for more than 24 hours, beginning Friday (24/01/03) evening until the time of this posting. Non-Malaysian visitors may or may not have had difficulties.
The most likely cause of this outage is the Code Red-like virus that has infected more than 39,000 computers and servers world wide. The virus (dubbed SQ Hell) by some, uses a vulnerability in Microsoft SQL database servers to propagate. Due to its high penetration rate, bandwidth world-wide has been eaten up by the virus as it tries to find openings to spread over the Internet.
Read Yahoo!'s report on the problem.
