Re: iis / smtp / mail services shutting down unexpectedly??

Just wanted to post what we found the culprit to be...
A malicious email was in our email programfiles/exchange/mailroot/vs1/queue
folder.
Seemed to be able to crash our IIS admin continually....

"Jarrod Foster" <jfoster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Oc2YX4$eFHA.1448@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> At about 2:30pm yesterday, my SBS2k3 server IIS Admin service started
> shutting down unexpectedly. This shuts down SMTP. Now we have no mail
> services... I just installed SP1 and it did not resolve my issue. Can
> anyone help point me in areas to look? I am in the dark here... We are
> also running GFI MS & ME for AV and AS software on teh server as well...
> TIA,
> Jarod
>


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