There is contention as to who found "Slammer" first. However, in terms of who first alerted the general public, this can be attributed to Michael Bacarella, who posted a message to the Bugtraq security mailing list entitled "MS SQL WORM IS DESTROYING INTERNET BLOCK PORT 1434!".[5] This was sent at 07:11:41 UTC on 25 January 2003. Ben Koshy is often credited as being the first; indeed the company he worked for put out a press statement to this effect.[6] However, his alert[7] to the public, sent to the NTBugtraq mailing list was not sent until 10:28 UTC. Robert Boyle sent an alert to NTBugtraq at 08:35 UTC[8] beating Koshy but lagging behind Bacarella. ISS, through Chris Rouland, sent out alerts at 11:54 UTC[9] and 11:56 UTC[10] to the ISSForum and Vulnwatch mailing lists respectively. An analysis released by Symantec is timestamped 07:45 GMT, which would precede these public announcements.[11]