Release Date: November 14, 2003 This content is archived.
Removal of unwanted SPAM from the campus email queue has been completed as of 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14.
Central email delivery has been enabled, with more than 350,000 incoming email messages queued for later delivery.
An additional tactic to speed the delivery of the impacted email will be utilized that divides emails from "trusted" sources such as known email servers on campus for priority delivery. This action should help in reducing the backlog of messages in a more meaningful manner.
Twenty-one computers on campus have been identified as compromised through the vulnerability that allowed the SPAM attack to overload central email delivery systems. Ten of the systems are student computers connected through Resnet. All of the computers have had their network connection disabled to prevent further harm. CIT analysis of one of the affected machines has revealed it was infected with a SPAM relay bot/virus newly discovered on 11/12/2003 and known as Trojan.Naldem.
All students, faculty and staff are urged to update their Symantec AntiVirus definition files using live update to be no older than 11/13/2003. UB distributes Symantec AntiVirus software to all students, faculty and staff as part of the iConnect@UB program through the TechTools 2003 CD and on the web at http://www.cit.buffalo.edu/.
To read an earlier report on the SPAM attack, go to http://www.buffalo.edu/news/fast-execute.cgi/article-page.html?article=64800009.
