>The last 4 days we've seen something but I dont know what it is.

have the infected machines run AV scanner and also SpyBot.

>Has anyone else encountered this and know what it is?
>
>Thousands of email going out to aol.com address's, hundreds more in the
>queue. I'm really, really annoyed by this and the last one I just kinda
>almost lost it on the customer for being so f'ing clueless.
>
>really really ticked

They probably don't have their machines patched, are not running any kind 
of host firewall like ZoneAlarm or BlackIce, nor AV, and/or clicked on an 
executable.  boom

my ZoneAlarm logs stats going back through last Saturday, showing blocks:

C:\>egrep -c "TCP " "C:\WINNT\Internet Logs\ZALog.txt"
1781

C:\>egrep -c "ICMP " "C:\WINNT\Internet Logs\ZALog.txt"
38059

ICMP is pings to port:0 (they get no response, stealth mode), and the TCP 
are probes to :135, :139, :1433, :445, :17300, :80, etc, etc.

Apart from the spam problem, it's a very nasty place out there.

Len


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