Apparently, three of these hit the mail list in rapid succession yesterday
(as quoted from the digest archives:
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 01:17:23 -0700
From: jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [none]
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I believe they are the remnants of three postings I made while my ISP's
SMTP (email) server was brought down completely by the W32/Nimba virus. It
accounts for three postings to the list sent last week, originally with a
subject and text, that never showed up in the archives or my OM inbox
(coming back from the listserver).
Appears my ISP has pretty much recovered although it took from Tuesday
night until some time late Friday or early yesterday. Had an avalanche of
almost 400 emails yesterday with dates ranging from the 21st-23rd. Looks
like they were able to recover some of the mail. Since they look so
cryptic (devoid of everything including subject), thought I would post an
explanation of what's been going on. My best guess? The subject and text
in them didn't survive the SMTP server crash. Similar to what you get when
the USPS mangles a letter beyond all recognition and delivers the surviving
shard of paper with the address on it.
BTW, I strongly suggest everyone running a Windows OS box update the
anti-virus software and do as thorough a scan as possible. McAfee's update
for both scan engine and virus data to detect and clean out W32/Nimba was
released just last Thursday. Norton AV also very likely requires the
absolute latest updates too. I've run McAfee AV across my box three times
since then and not found anything, so it looks like I escaped getting this
worm from my ISP.
Those using:
+ Internet Explorer 5.01 or 5.5 without the Service Pack 2 update
+ any Windows OS successor to Win98 that has IIS
There are some security patches from Microsoft for specific versions of
Internet Explorer and Windows OS's that have IIS. You can read more about
it here on McAfee's AV site:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusSummary.asp?virus_k=99209
-- John
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