SSH probe attack afoot?

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie () fantasyfarm com>]

We're now getting hammered with the third round of ssh probes in the last 
four days [one from CA, one from Brazil and one from Virginia].  I was 
wondering: is there some virus or the like floating around now that 
leaves an ssh-hammering zombie in its wake?  Or is it just coincidental 
that we have gotten three floods?

[the probes are just dozens of random-seeming login attempts with a bunch 
of root-password-guesses interspersed]

  /Bernie\

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