OT:Mydoom :(

[TAandy]

This is active today, eight infected emails in the last four hours !!!

 

[Unforgiven]

feel blessed you only get that many. there are people here @ work that are getting about 100-200 a day! it was so many that it clogged our exchange mail server about a week ago! its nasty!

 

[networkman]

Yeah, it got so bad at my workplace that we started intercepting and blocking all emails with just Subject headings of "Hi", "Hello", "Test", etc., in addition to those with actual virus payloads.

 

[ProviaFan]

I've not seen any instances of it yet, but my primary email address isn't widely known around the 'net. 😉

However, I got a call earlier from an older not-quite-as-computer-literate (stating it nicely) friend, who's computers started going absolutely "crazy" today. What are the symptoms of a Mydoom infection, anyway? 😱

 

[compudog]

I have a remote office that gets 100-200 messages per day of spam and MyDoom nonsense. My PC's are secure there, it's just ridiculous the amount of traffic this thing is generating!

 

[Confused]

Our email gateway at work blocks out all zip,pif,scr,exe,bat etc files before they ever get to the user's mailbox.

We've only had one infected PC, and that was through a consultant's email address which isn't on our network and therefore bypassed our mail gateway.

Not had any on my personal email accounts either 😉


Garry

 

[RaySun2Be]

I've had it hit my Yahoo account, and at work, we have gotten 270+ MyDoom, MiMail in the last week, for an office of around 30 PCs. We were getting about 2 to 3 every 2 weeks prior to that.

Stupid Watchguard Firebox has a bug trying to handle ESMTP mail, so I cannot use the SMTP Proxy to filter out junk mail. :|

I'm thinking of switching over to smoothwall. 🙂

 

[BornStar]

I've only gotten about 10 emails total but my roommate had over 10,000 the first day alone. He estimates he's recieved around 50,000 MyDoom emails at this point. This ah heck was nasty to Purdue's servers.

 

[Unforgiven]

Originally posted by: RaySun2Be
I've had it hit my Yahoo account, and at work, we have gotten 270+ MyDoom, MiMail in the last week, for an office of around 30 PCs. We were getting about 2 to 3 every 2 weeks prior to that.

Stupid Watchguard Firebox has a bug trying to handle ESMTP mail, so I cannot use the SMTP Proxy to filter out junk mail. :|

I'm thinking of switching over to smoothwall. 🙂

our watchguard firebox did the exact same thing at work! ours is only 2 years old and those sons of bitches refuse to support it because its not the latest and greatest. piece of s*it company! we just switched over to sonicwall! their customer service is fantastic and you can edit the parameters of the firewall and have the changes applied via a web interface and you dont have to reboot the firewall itself like we had to every friggin time with the firebox! www.sonicwall.com

 

[RemyCanad]

I have setup many smoothwall firewalls and all work fine. Even have one filtering via squidguard, now that was not as easy. 😉

As for this virus I have only gotten two emails with it. 🙂 I guess you can call me lucky.

 

[LANMAN]

Symantec Exchange SMTP Filter baby!! 🙂

We got three of them and the rest are history!! 😀

--LANMAN

 

[RemyCanad]

On the topic of viruses and antivirus programs, I found a 4 gig .dat file that belonged to AVG. (The antivirus I currently run) I have not clue what it was doing there but windows started complaining about running out of room on the C: drive. This drive is 30 gigs and it only holds program files/windows stuff. All documents are on the other 30 gig or the server. So I went looking around for the problem and there it was.

Any ideas on what that could have been? AVG is running just fine after I deleted it and there was another file that was similar to it, in the same directory, that is only 5k. :S

 

[HayHauler]

I've had about 20 of the MyDoom e-mails...
Mostly saying that the e-mail server has "returned" an e-mail that I tried to
send to someone that I don't even know! or "delivery failure" stuff.

Haven't been infected here.

Gotta loooove the Linux ! !

Hay
:beer: :wine:

 

[compudog]

Grrrr. I don't like seeing all the negative comments about the Watchgaurd units. I just installed two Watchgaurd Firebox VPN's at corporate and one Watchgaurd Firebox 6tc SOHO w/VPN at two remote offices. So far I have not had any trouble setting them up or configuring, though all our email is externally hosted at the moment, so the Watchgaurds are only handling http and ftp traffic...

 

[RaySun2Be]

Originally posted by: plankton

Originally posted by: RaySun2Be
I've had it hit my Yahoo account, and at work, we have gotten 270+ MyDoom, MiMail in the last week, for an office of around 30 PCs. We were getting about 2 to 3 every 2 weeks prior to that.

Stupid Watchguard Firebox has a bug trying to handle ESMTP mail, so I cannot use the SMTP Proxy to filter out junk mail. :|

I'm thinking of switching over to smoothwall. 🙂

our watchguard firebox did the exact same thing at work! ours is only 2 years old and those sons of bitches refuse to support it because its not the latest and greatest. piece of s*it company! we just switched over to sonicwall! their customer service is fantastic and you can edit the parameters of the firewall and have the changes applied via a web interface and you dont have to reboot the firewall itself like we had to every friggin time with the firebox! www.sonicwall.com

Yeah, it sucks. We are a couple of software versions back, but even reading about the newest one, it "may" fix the problem. But reading on their forum, it sounded like people were still having problems with ESMTP, or they could only use the SMTP Proxy in one direction, and use the filter the other direction. :|