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How Well are Your Servers Handling MyDoom?

Posted by Cliff on from the preventing-the-meltdown dept.

whosyourgeekdaddy asks: "A co-worker was showing me some of the usage stats for a clients exchange server: its averaging 630 users, and 300,000 emails per day, for the last 4 days. This made me want to ask how heavy is the workload for your 'average' Exchange server? Is this typical? MyDoom has upped the usage some, but not a lot. This client is a real estate company, so e-mail is frequently used." Of course, Exchange servers aren't the only ones feeling MyDoom. What kind of statistics have you been seeing from MyDoom, both as a user and as an administrator?

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  1. 500 mails a day? by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If you're getting 500 emails a day, either the entirity of your staff is subscribed to lkml and debian-user, or you've got a staff that hasn't been trained not to plug their damned mail address into every last fucking form field in sight.

    Seriously, half an hour of internet usage training 2-3 times a year can halve your bandwidth requirements.

    (p.s. -- Don't mod me up. I'll only use the karma to troll at +2 later.)

  2. For the record by jeffasselin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We have about 50 users, we got around 200 viruses in the first 18 hours.

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    If he explores all forms and substances Straight homeward to their symbol-essences; He shall not die.
  3. well... by drakaan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    since I don't allow in attachments that end in .pif .exe .scr .com or .bat (including zipped ones...thank you antigen), there have been precisely zero delivered to anybody's inboxes.

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    "Murphy was an optimist" - O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's Law
  4. The user, experience and self-infection by rayamor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Reminds me of that dell commercial where users had to go through computer boot camp.

    I notice a steady flow of anti-microsoft commentary when an outbreak such as this occurs. Remember... it was the user (is luser appropriate here?), and not microsoft that "stuck the needle in their arms."

    During times like this - I think back to the amount of times I've ever gotten infected by a virus... none, I've never used AV software and probably never will - I just don't have a need, just like many other slashdotters.

    Why is this you ask? Easy, because we know better. All of the hours spent in front of our boxes have allowed us to developed a trained eye... quick to point out a bullshit email subject or attachment.

    The common user does not know any better and keeps infecteing themself with the virus of the month. AV software isn't always of help because viruses are created faster than the AV companies can update their definitions.

    The solution lies in user training. How can mass user training be accomplished? I think OS's after being installed or used for the first time should offer (or mandate) a presentation on secure computer usage.. what to look out for, and things not to do when on the computer, such as give out credit card info or fall for Nigerian scams.