I don't know if this is the proper place to put this, but there is a virus called Nimda that is causing net slowdowns by flooding requests to port 80 (check www.cert.org for details). This is at the same time as a readme.exe file is being circulated that is supposedly related to this. The virus can effect PC's and Microsoft Servers, but can also cripple other servers by scanning and running up processes. We've been seriously hit at our work all afternoon by these requests (even though our Solaris can't get the actual virus).