Conficker Collateral Damage for March 2009.
This is one side effect of the conficker worm. Since it generates random doains to try to get instructions for if your site is the site of the day you are going to get hammered. On March 13 it will be southwest airline’s turn. Luckily for them they ahve some options..smaller companies like ECC would get knocked offline immeditaly.
Security researchers have figured out the pattern for conficker’s domain searching but right now stoping it because of 11+ millions infections is nearly impossible at this time.