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My apologies to anyone who has seen bounces from mail that should have found
its way to my address. Mail from the list serv jumps from Elizabeth
Campbell's "Restore options and Volume Sets questions" sent Tuesday,
September 18, 2001 4:32 PM EDT, to John Backus's first message below. I did
not receive anything in between, and suspect that senders or raven were
seeing bounces between those times.
Our email admin immediately took our email server out of local service,
pre-emptively, and at some point, even stopped receiving inbound mail. Since
we did subsequently see a pair of infected development servers (obviously,
not very well adminned by the developers who insisted on having total
control over them), this may have been a prudent precaution. Since our email
admin made his case for aggressive control of our email server, we have not
seen a single virus infection spread via internal email, so since he's
batting a thousand, almost no one is arguing with him. Besides, he was too
busy helping a couple of developers clean up their servers to have time to
be argued with.
Normally, I would argue for aggressive management of both the servers and
the desktops, patching their OSs and keeping their AV scanners updated, but
also appreciate that this is not necessarily an easy thing to accomplish,
and one that can quickly run into opposition. Someone somewhere will argue
and get support for the argument that if we mandate that they spend time
doing so, that admin time should go against an admin budget, and not their
project budget. I can only say that by the time I got a note to make sure my
AV was updated and my system scanned, both scheduled tasks had already run.
In fact, I am batting a thousand myself on having my AV scanner
automatically updated before I see the reminder emails to update my AV
scanner.
I sure do miss adminning a 3000, though... as little time as that took...
Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com
-----Original Message-----
From: John Backus [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 1:28 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: OT: New version of CODE RED virus 'at work' reports CNNFN.
http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/09/18/technology/wires/worm_ap/
For details, see the above link.
John Backus
beechglen.com
(513) 922-0509
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