We lost our small business server last week - got a trogan infection - which turned our exchange into a spam-sender and got our static IP address blocked -a real nightmare!

At any rate - my first step to correcting this was to get my ISP to host our e-mail - which they successfully pulled off today. Now my e-mail is out-of-house, which is a real relief.

Now the server - it's destroyed - the trojan/virus has killed it. Can't run norton (it simply freezes), can't install anything - 1600+ event logs each day. We think it's all OS/driver/software related - but also suspect that our "WAN-side" NIC is dead. At this point we have lost our internet connection at the office. The old configuration was DSL->CISCO 827 MODEM->NIC CARD on server. Second NIC card on server was connected to the LAN switch in the office...

So tomorrow, I'm thinking my next important step is to get a new DSL modem (don't know if the old CISCO 827 is dead or not - but it's old) and a new LINXUS router.

Once we get the LINXUS router and new modem in place, give the router the appropriate IP address and tell our ISP the MAC address, plug the switch into the router, the office should be back on the internet (only about 6 or so workstations).

This is stretching my hardware and network abilities a real lot - I'm really just a software guy...

Losing internet access has stopped me from being able to service my customers...

Now the server - we are thinking of nuking it and putting Win 2003 on it - it's got SBS 2000 right now. That was a priority 3 days ago, but with the e-mail being outside now and the potential for us to get internet access through a router/modem, that has dropped down the list.

So - at any rate - I am way outside my comfort zone on all of this...

Does anyone have any opinions on any of this??