Wow... people still use killfiles??? ;-)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 5:34 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Well, this is reassuring...
> 
> 
> Yeah it does matter. The message you got from SANS does not 
> appear to come
> from this list. There is *no* message like that in my 
> exchange public folder
> that is subscribed to the list. It has not been intercepted 
> at my AV mail
> gateway.
> 
> This means 1 of 2 things
> 
> 1) I can't read a public folder.
> 2) You don't actually know where the message you got came from.
> 
> I tend to go with 2) (funnily enough) and considering your knee-jerk
> reaction to act like chicken little without proper checking 
> of the facts,
> means the some of the 2000+ sys admins of this list may well 
> of wasted time
> , just like I have , checking for a file that was supposed to 
> of entered
> their mail servers that was infected and never detected by 
> their AV product.
> 
> So before you waste our time again, sod off, do some research 
> and get your
> facts right, don't waste our time.
> 
> Oh and congratulations you have made my killfile, no doubt I 
> have made yours
> :-)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Page [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2001 2:25 p.m.
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Well, this is reassuring...
> 
> 
> Does it matter? I was fairly busy between the readme.txt and 
> the W32.Nimda
> to not worry about the specifics. If it came from SANS, 
> that's where it came
> from. I'm sorry if that offends you but what can I do? 
> Actually, since I got
> it off this list, why don't you analyze it and tell us what you find.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 10:01 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Well, this is reassuring...
> 
> 
> So you actually looked at the smtp source and saw that it 
> actually had the
> attachment in the email and not just a fragment?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Page [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2001 1:55 p.m.
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Well, this is reassuring...
> 
> 
> It's not a rumor, it's what happened. That this e-mail got to 
> one of their
> people and propagated is disturbing. Antigen caught it at my 
> GW and didn't
> send it anywhere. What's there excuse?
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:19 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Well, this is reassuring...
> 
> 
> Careful before spreading such a rumor, the detecters may well be
> oversensiitve at this point. McAffee did the same to me 
> *because* a guy had
> posted to the mailing lust and email containing  a portion of the
> javascript. I would suggest considering the source of teh 
> messaging being
> blocked, that it is like they the message was benign and they 
> too had a
> portion of code in it that set the alarm bells off.
>  
> regards
> Dean
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Page [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2001 12:49 p.m.
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Well, this is reassuring...
> 
> 
> 
> Antigen for Exchange found readme.exe infected with 
> JScript/Nimda.A.Worm
> (CA(InoculateIT)) worm. The message is currently Purged.  The 
> message, "SANS
> NewsBites Vol. 3 Num. 38", was sent from The SANS Institute  and was
> discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at 
> ORGANIZATION/SITE-1/ALEXAPP001.
> 
> 
> 
> Greg 
> 
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