Re: Hope you all are ready for SoBig

  • From: "shane mullins" <tsmullins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:25:35 -0400

RE: [isalist] Re: Hope you all are ready for SoBigI was lucky only about 30.

Shane 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rogers, Brian 
  To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:02 AM
  Subject: [isalist] Re: Hope you all are ready for SoBig


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  Whew..came in this morning....over 5000 notifications of pif/scr attachments 
eaten overnight. 

  This is ridiculous. 



  -----Original Message----- 
  From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 9:08 AM 
  To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] 
  Subject: [isalist] Re: Hope you all are ready for SoBig 

  http://www.ISAserver.org 



  Agreed; especially in technical forums. 
  Anything that deserves illustration beyond ASCII characters is best left to 
attachments. 

  I configure my "public" mail readers to render and compose in plain text 
only. 
  This allows me to concentrate on the problem, not the pretty backgrounds and 
fonts some folks find interesting. 

  Also, if you never render HTML in your preview or actual reading windows, you 
won't help the spammer / worm distribution efforts that depend on them.

    Jim Harrison 
    MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG 
    http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison/ 
    http://isatools.org 
    Read the help / books / articles! 



  On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:59:39 -0700 
   "cismic" <cismic@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
  http://www.ISAserver.org 



  Well some common sense on the receiving of mail. 

  1. I don't care about all the pretty graphics that arrive via mail. 
     A.  When you get one of those in your in box and one of the graphics 
         has an ip address associated with it that data is sent back to 
  some 
         server out there informing it has a valid email address. Not in 
  that sense 
         but, someone can harvest the web log where the graphic resides 
  and corralate 
         that back to a valid email. 
     B.  I also setup my reg to only read as plain text and don't  allow 
  auto response: 

  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Options\Mail] 
  "Message RTF Format"=dword:00000001 
  "EnableLogging"=dword:00000000 
  "Receipt Response"=dword:00000001 
  "Hangup after Spool"=dword:00000000 
  "EditorPreference"=dword:00020000 
  "AdHocReviewBehavior"=dword:00000001 
  "ReadAsPlain"=dword:00000001 
      C.  Some simple changes to how *.pifs are opened including *.scr's 
  should go a long way. 
          1.  Yup set explorer to open unknown files with notpad is one 
                  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\Open\Command] 
  @="notepad.exe %1" 
            2.  Add the following to a reg file (back things up first 
  before applying) 
                  and this will associate *.pif and *.scr with notepad. 
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.scr] 
  "Content Type"="text/plain" 
  @="txtfile" 

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.scr\ShellNew] 
  "NullFile"="" 

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pif] 
  "Content Type"="text/plain" 
  @="txtfile" 

  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pif\ShellNew] 
  "NullFile"="" 

  2. Just another quick reference guide. 
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/05/virushunting/default.aspx 

  Joseph 



  -----Original Message----- 
  From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:35 PM 
  To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] 
  Subject: [isalist] Re: Hope you all are ready for SoBig 



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  That's why I love my RAV on Copmmunigate Pro; I got lots of RAV emails, 
  but the virus is stopped cold at the server. 

   Jim Harrison 
   MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG  http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver 
   http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison 
   http://isatools.org 

   Read the help, books and articles! 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Richard Bell" <rbell@xxxxxxxxxx> 
  To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 11:05 
  Subject: [isalist] Hope you all are ready for SoBig 



  http://www.ISAserver.org 



  > It's back and with a vengeance.  I have had over 500 hits in the last 
  > three hours.  Filter all SMTP for .pif and .scr extensions, also for 
  > the file "your_details.zip"  This latest round seems to be worse then 
  > the first. 
  > 
  > 
  > Richard Bell 
  > MIS Director 
  > Microfilm Services, Inc. 
  > www.msifla.net 
  > rbell@xxxxxxxxxx 
  > 
  > 



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