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Terence L Floen

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Jun 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/10/99
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I beleive I have an unknown or reported virus, but am not sure. I have
contacted several other companies that I have the same setup as here at
this company and non of them seem to have the issues that my company is
having.

Issue: It effects either Outlook client or Exchange Server. I dont
know how which, but a folder is created in a users mailbox
named, "Infected". Sometime the folder is named, "/Infected" I have
been unsuccessful in finding the reason or exact e-mail message for the
creation of these folders. It has mainly happened all today, Thursday,
for as far as I can tell.

Please let me know if any of you have had this issue with the
mysterious folder "Infected" or if you can steer me in the correct
direction. I have searched Symantec and McAfee could not find virus
info on this. Thank you in advance.

(Exchange Server v4 w/ SP5; Outlook 97 & 98 clients; Win 95, 98, & NT
workstations.)

Terence L Floen
Systems Administrator
Orion Systems Group, Inc.
mailto:ter...@orionsystems.com


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Jared S

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Jun 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/10/99
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You are running McAfee Net Shield, right? The email scan component makes
that folder as part of the software. It is normal. This is the folder the
virus scan software uses to put attachments that are infected and cannot be
removed.


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Rich Matheisen

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Jun 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/11/99
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Terence L Floen <ter...@orionsystems.com> wrote:

>I beleive I have an unknown or reported virus, but am not sure. I have
>contacted several other companies that I have the same setup as here at
>this company and non of them seem to have the issues that my company is
>having.
>
>Issue: It effects either Outlook client or Exchange Server. I dont
>know how which, but a folder is created in a users mailbox
>named, "Infected". Sometime the folder is named, "/Infected" I have
>been unsuccessful in finding the reason or exact e-mail message for the
>creation of these folders. It has mainly happened all today, Thursday,
>for as far as I can tell.

Read the documentation that came with your Anti-Virus software. If
you're keeping up with the AV virus signatures you've probably been
detecting the latest worm/virus making the rounds today.

------------------
Rich Matheisen
MCSE, Exchange MVP

Alan Drown

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Jun 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/12/99
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Have you tried to install a antivirus component to the Exchange Server.

Ours did the same thing afte we installed Network Associates Exchange Server
antivirus package.

alan

Terence L Floen wrote in message <7jp8pn$sqj$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...


>I beleive I have an unknown or reported virus, but am not sure. I have
>contacted several other companies that I have the same setup as here at
>this company and non of them seem to have the issues that my company is
>having.
>
>Issue: It effects either Outlook client or Exchange Server. I dont
>know how which, but a folder is created in a users mailbox
>named, "Infected". Sometime the folder is named, "/Infected" I have
>been unsuccessful in finding the reason or exact e-mail message for the
>creation of these folders. It has mainly happened all today, Thursday,
>for as far as I can tell.
>

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