Re: Sobig Traffic

[Greg Francis <francis () GONZAGA EDU>]

Our mail relays (two Linux servers) are stripping out the attachments
prior to their arrival at the Exchange servers. It saves a tremendous
amount of resources on the part of the Exchange servers and our other
internal mail servers.

Greg

Greg Francis                                Gonzaga University
Sr. System Administrator                    Spokane Washington
francis () gonzaga edu                         509-323-6896

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Barros, Jacob wrote:

> Our exchange server is still getting hit with email messages containing
> the Sobig.f virus. The viruses is being deleted but we're losing system
> resources in the process.  Do any of you know if there is a way that I
> can filter/block those messages before it hits the exchange server? Can
> it even be done or should we just ride out the storm.  Am I on the wrong
> track in thinking that this bug is on the outside and in fact may be
> resident on one of our internal machines?

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