I am not so sure that this is totally innocuous. My server has been running nicely for at least the last year or so - no reboots needed except for installing patches, except for 2 problems:
This morning. I wake up and find all of my websites are down. The logs are full of hundreds of this one error: "208.206.10.19" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)" "unknown exception condition Error occured for unknown cause. Date/Time: 11/13/02 07:02:11 Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Remote Address: 208.206.10.19 So I log onto the server, and there are hundreds of pop up alerts saying: --------------------- Application popup: Messenger Service Message from CAUTION to 208.206.10.16 on 11/12/2002 6:25:47 AM SECURITY ALERT! YOUR COMPUTER IS RECORDING!! Currently Recorded Items... * Instant Messages * Chat Sessions * Websites Visited * Pop-Ups Loaded * Pictures in YOUR Email & on your hard drive * Started & Finished Downloads * Your Credit Card Information * Your Home Address & Phone (Do you have Autocompleted turned on?) For Information on how to BEST protect yourself, send an empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------- The logs show that the cold fusion service restarted itself a LOT of time, and that didn't help. I manually restarted the cold fusion services as well as the web services, and that didn't help. I had to reboot, and that fixed the problem. A similar thing happened about a week ago. Could be a coincidence, but until these messages happened, I had no problem. Al >The link Howie posted is a good description of the problem. As it states, >you can disable the Messenger service to prevent this. Or, you can just >click "OK" and ignore it, frankly - it can't really do anything to the >machine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
