Re: OT: e-mail virii on the loose?

I posted the following to one related group yesterday,
and wanted to follow up to all the groups I moderate today.

Overnight my system received somewhat in excess of 300 megabytes
worth of this newest virus.  I say somewhat because I don't know
yet how bad it was; I am still trying to clear enough of it out
to get mail working properly again.

As far as I am aware no mail / group postings have been lost,
but it could be much much later today before anything starts
flowing in the newsgroups.  I am currently unable to process
incoming messages, though they are being delivered ok.

My appologies for this delay.  I am looking at connecting up
a spare 28 gig RAID array I have lying around to the system
which processes the newsgroup posts, or moving the replacement
system (which is here and has been being configured and tested
slowly for the last couple of months) into production sooner.
However, I need to fix things on the existing system and
configuration first, and that may take all day.

George William Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alain Fournier  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Scott Lowther wrote:
>>>Anybody else getting mail-bombed with hundreds of 150kilobyte virus or
>>>worm messages?
>>
>>Yes my junk mail filter is going nuts. About 100 junk mail in the last 2 
>>or 3 hours.
>
>I'm getting better than one a minute right now.
>
>There may be delays in group message approvals for the
>groups I moderate... this is rightly a flood.


-george william herbert
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