There's a new one circulating that somebody went to a lot of trouble to create. It has three attachments. Two are html docs that open in your email reader with lots of official microsoft colour and logos and proper english. Looks very official. The third attachment is of course the virus. Again MICROSOFT DOES NOT SEND EMAIL PATCHES, SECURITY FIXES ETC, Be very wary!
On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 02:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > Subject: Re: Virus as "Microsoft Security Bulletin" > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Jack wrote: > >> Anyone else? > > I've gotten a lot of these. > > Microsoft *never* distributes service packs or security patches via > email. > Email notifications from them just have a link to download the patch > from > one of their servers. If you get an email claiming to be from > Microsoft > with a "security patch" attached, it's a virus. > |
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