Search Again: Re: Virus Help From: Jeff Folk Date: Thursday, March 4, 2004 Time: 12:31:50 pm Bagel.J is very resourceful at harvesting email addresses. The first source that comes to mind in the smtp.log opti uses to log outgoing mail... Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: Shawn Hogan To: Optigold ISP List Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [Optigold ISP] Virus Help Andy Gibson wrote: > Our ISP office had a similar breakout of this virus yesterday and we were able > to shut it down before it got out of control. The first thing I thought when > I got the virus was that the mail server was infected and was sending this out > to all of our customers but turns out it was an employee's machine that was > infected and sent out to everyone in the office. We were able to narrow down > the source by viewing the email headers. > > If the virus has somehow found its way to your optigold server then it may be > a database aware virus and got a user listing from filemaker or SQL. Our > OptiGold server was not compromised when this virus was spreading but thats > not to say it isn't possible. > > OR, an employee, or ex-employee has a current listing of your users on their > computer that was compromised by the virus... I would doubt anyone would go to the trouble to target Optigold for getting email lists. My guess is it's looking somewhere else (maybe email addresses you have ever sent email to from your email client) for example... - Shawn ---------------------------------- Shawn D. Hogan President, Digital Point Solutions http://www.digitalpoint.com (858) 452-3696 --------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe or to search list archive please visit http://www.optigold.com/lists/isp.html --------------------------------------------------- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.611 / Virus Database: 391 - Release Date: 3/3/2004

Messages In This Thread: Virus Help by Matt Clark on Mar 4, 2004 at 11:58:34 am Re: Virus Help by Andy Gibson on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:05:04 pm Re: Virus Help by Matt Clark on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:07:25 pm Re: Virus Help by Jeff Folk on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:11:33 pm Re: Virus Help by Tim Brown on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:14:52 pm Re: Virus Help by Matt Clark on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:16:22 pm Re: Virus Help by Andy Gibson on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:17:45 pm Re: Virus Help by Matt Clark on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:18:46 pm Re: Virus Help by Matt Clark on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:25:02 pm Re: Virus Help by Shawn Hogan on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:25:47 pm Re: Virus Help by Andy Gibson on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:28:00 pm Re: Virus Help by Andy Gibson on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:29:53 pm Re: Virus Help by Jeff Folk on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:31:50 pm Re: Virus Help by Matt Clark on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:40:42 pm Re: Virus Help by Shawn Hogan on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:47:38 pm Re: Virus Help by Matt Clark on Mar 5, 2004 at 7:57:58 am Re: Virus Help by Butch Andrews on Mar 5, 2004 at 8:15:27 am