Subject: Re: Virus spread control
From: John Blagg (jblagg@ak.net)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 09:51:19 AKST
Not quite sure what to do for present version of sendmail, the sequence used
to be:
1. stop server
2. hunt down message pointers in outgoing queue
3. delete above
4. hunt down messages in mailstore
5. delete above
6. restart server and hope you haven't goofed.
Scripts have been built to deal with this, but I don't know if they have
been built into the later versions of sendmail or not.
Much easier to amend your Terms of Service to make the user responsible,
then charge by the byte. . . ;)
Yours,
John B.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Barsalou" <mbarsalou@aidea.org>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:48 AM
Subject: Virus spread control
>
> OK....here is the scenario.....
>
> You have done all that you can do to protect yourself from viruses getting
> to your users....but somehow, someone gets a virus on their machine. This
> virus starts sending mail to all of the users recipients.
>
> As a system administrator....what do you have to do to stop all the queued
> messages from going out?
>
> In this particular exercise, let's assume that we are using sendmail.
>
> Anyone been through this or have ideas about it?
>
> Mike
>
>
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