The outcome of today's little adventure . . . I removed the virus I had (backdoor-G2.svr.gen) Mr McAfee found for me, and most of the problems I'd been having went away, but not the server problem described below. I guess if the virus caused the damage, it had remained. So after reinstalling SQL7 and testing my databases, I reinstalled CF Server, and the problem seems to have gone away. Thanks, Michael for your suggestions. I don't have any templates on my dev machine with CFMail in them so I knew it wasn't that, but you were right, it was a runaway server with the accelerator stuck, no driver and no brakes. Just as I was writing this message, Will Swain's suggestion came in and I think he's nailed it ... a test I had done of a mail template, run once then deleted, had triggered this phenomenon, I think. A trap for novices huh. The moral of the story --- Don't do any CFMAIL development on your own machine - use someone elses! Cheers, Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 1:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is this a virus? Its either a messed up CF server or you've got a template that's running wild. Check the scheduler for any processes that look strange. Then check all your application.cfm files for any CFMAIL or includes that may be CFMAIL. If someone slipped a 'template virus' onto your machine it can be hunted down. If not, it may be the server going crazy. > Is this a virus? > > My desktop version of CF Server on my development machine is sending > emails - hundreds of them - and they're filling up the undelivr folder, > because they're all zero size files. They're coming at the rate of 5-10 > a second and when I have the server going (I have it turned off while I > figure out what's doing this) I have to delete as fast as I can go or my > hard drive's going to have gigaabytes of zero size files. (Even though > they're zero files, they still take up disk allocation and FAT table > space) > > I figure I have a virus here, and I'm checking my drives with my > anti-virus programs - but is there any other explanation for this > behaviour I ought to look into? > > Cheers, > Mike Kear > AFP Web Development > Windsor, NSW, Australia > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
