My personal account has yet to get hit by the virus. My CFX account on
the other hand, had a few but my mail server stripped the attachments.
We have been getting quite a few calls from customers getting this as
well. It seems the virus also does an MX record lookup and will take the
lowest priority (if there is one) and make a direct connection to that
server and send the mail. That's how it got around some of our filtering
anyway. 

As far as Blaster, we have not seen any sign of that yet either. The
closest was that we cut off an AT&T backbone on Saturday because they
were getting hit and we didn't want to coming into our networks. 

Dan Phillips
www.CFXHosting.com 
1-866-239-4678
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-----Original Message-----
From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 12:29 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Clean off


Thankfully between gov't email and speakeasy's amazing services I am
relatively untouched by the madness around me.

How bad is it for other people?  I am writing a special topic paper on
soBig and the blaster variants, and tying it into change/patch
management practices.  I would really love to hear back from anyone
that's been hit, about how they have dealt with it.  Also those that
weren't affected, what practices and policies do you have in place to
help you mitigate some of the threat?

Thanks,

Timothy Heald
Information Systems Specialist
Overseas Security Advisory Council
U.S. Department of State
571.345.2235


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 12:26 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Clean off


I'm assuming everyone is covered by spam at the moment can can't post.
If so, how about using CF to do your cleanup for you. Use CFPOP to get
all the headers from your mail box (or maybe the first 20-50 at a time)
and then run this against the returned query:
SELECT     Subject
FROM         Spam
WHERE     (DomainChecked = 0) AND (Subject LIKE '%Thank you%' OR
                      Subject LIKE '%Approved%' OR
                      Subject LIKE '%Details%' OR
                      Subject LIKE '%Wicked screensaver%' OR
                      Subject LIKE '%movie%' OR
                      Subject LIKE '%your application%' OR
                      Subject LIKE '%attachment%' OR
                      Subject LIKE '%failure%' OR
                      Subject LIKE '%failed%' OR
                      Subject LIKE '%returned%' OR
                      Subject LIKE '%virus%')
ORDER BY Subject
Anything that comes back can be routed to the screen so you can view the
subject and other info. If its spam, just tell CFPOP to delete it. Saves
on the downloading and can even be automated more. If you have access to
your mail server, I've got an additional script suggestion that'll do
the job automatically by detecting any mail files with viruses in them.
Just needs CF, CFDIRECTORY, a CFX and a CFIF.

Michael Dinowitz
Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had yet



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