Security Office Report #15 - 09/05/03

1. SOA/AD Vman has decided to retire from active duty. We wish him the fondest of farewells, and a lot of sympathy since he'll be taking care of his kid full time. Applications are not being accepted at this time.

2. Fairly quiet week on IRC. There was an incident involving a pilot using an autogreet script to redirect members to inappropriate sites, but the appropriate bans have been set, and the case is being assembled.

3. Keep in mind, virus activity is still fairly high. Insure your virus definitions are up to date, that you have applied all relevant security updates to your operating system and email client, and be careful of opening attachments from unknown users. Below are a list of subjects frequently used by the Sobig.F virus, which has given me the most attempts lately.

* subjects to avoid.
* Your details
* Thank you!
* Re: Thank you!
* Re: Details
* Re: Re: My details
* Re: Approved
* Re: Your application
* Re: Wicked screensaver
* Re: That movie
* Re: That movie


If you believe you have contracted a virus, contact the CA:SO through an uninfected computer, or a web-based email account, with the subject of "Security - Virus Removal". Do not attach any files, as the mail will be automatically redirected to my trash.

That's it for this week, folks. Keep it clean, and stay safe.
CA:SO/VA Ziggy/CA-9/SSSD Sovereign GOE/BS/OV-5E [LANC] {IWATS-AIM-CBX-ICQ-IIC/1-LIN-M/1/2-TT}