Speakeasy's e-mail to its customers read, in part: "Over the last three months, we have been battling it out with the Code Red worm. Just as we were beginning to believe the worst was behind us, we have now learned that there is yet another hostile bit of rogue data coursing its way around the Internet. The affects of this worm are detrimental to all ... after 9/23/01, Speakeasy's Abuse Team will be freezing the DSL circuit hooked to any machine infected with the worm.