> "1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing > my > email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email > server versus my travel schedule." > > Im lost... Why did he not change his password?
Because hindsight is 20/20. I would bet that Gabe only recently (today) discovered that someone was using his e-mail account, otherwise he surely would have changed his password and/or disabled his e-mail account until things could be investigated further. It's so commonplace today for people to expect their Windows computers to do strange things and usually the first thought is "I have a virus". Run a virus scanner and if it doesn't detect anything, then your machine must not be infected, right? <sarcasm>After all, how could you get a virus that no body else knows about?</sarcasm> I'm sure with all the flurry of activity in the last couple of months for Valve, and Gabe being on the road so much, that nobody really thought twice about spending the time to throughly investigate why Gabe's computer was acting weird. Even worse, I would bet that the virus spread itself to other machines, so that even if Gabe did reformat his machine and get it clean again, as soon as he accessed one of the infected machines, it was back on his machine again. Sometimes those little buggers are REAL hard to get rid of, especially in a corporate network environment. I feel for the Valve guys and I know how difficult it can be to create secure networks yet still allow internal people to access the external resources that they need on a day-to-day basis. Being a network administrator is not an easy job and there's probably not much the network admins could have done in this case anyway. Perhaps Valve will restructure their internal network so that the "family jewels" never sit on a machine that has any kind of external Internet access. It makes development tasks more of a pain, but in does help to prevent security breaches. Jeffrey "botman" Broome _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
