Hello,

Thought you people would like to know about the following :

The other day an exec downloaded a message pretending to be from UPS, 
informing him that if he does not answer the message, a package he is 
waiting will get lost.

Anyway, the exec opened the message. Inside the message was a Trojan.
A very nasty one : "XP Antivirus Professional" claimed that is was.
Naturally, it was nothing else than a very  - VERY nasty trojan.

I tried to take it away, but I had to re-install (about 40Gb of data to
be backed-up plus 3,5Gb of a .pst file for outlook 2007).

After spending one day of re-installing, I thought I should go to the ASSP
interface and have a look why, WHY did it let that specific 
message get through.

The incident took place on either the 4th of the 5th of March, so I tried
to access the logs back to that date. I couldn't (!?)

The logs will go back to the 8th of March. Watching the logs, I realized 
that tens of messages have to tried to pass this "UPS" subject line to
various users inside the network, but all got (correctly) marked as 
SP*M. So I still tried to access the 4/3 and 5/3 to find the message and
pass it through the mail analyzer.

The only thing I managed to do (here comes the description for the crash
incident), is instruct the system to check all the log files. Then ASSP
crashed and its process stopped functioning.

I would really appreciate if someone could shed some light on this.
I really have to hunt this down and resolve it. If everytime this happens
(users are no clever people, I have established that since ages ago), 
, I will end-up wasting my time doing re-installations of windows
XP around the offices.

Some data : 

ASSP v1.6.5.4(1.0.0.4)
Slackware Linux v12.0 on an Intel [email protected]
2Gb of RAM
80Gb IDE/ATAPI HITACHI HDD
PERL v5.10.0 built for i486-linux-thread-multi

uname -a  :
            2.6.27.7-smp #2 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:32:43 CST 2008 i686 Intel(R) 
Celeron(R) CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Any help would be appreciated,

TIA,

spyros 


      


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