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Date:         Sun, 28 Sep 2003 18:31:41 -0700
Reply-To:     Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
Organization: http://wetwesties.org/
Subject:      Re: Microsoft patch- hoax or real
Comments: To: developtrust <developtrust@COX.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <002c01c385ed$3ad0ed60$6501a8c0@williamvafwvvc>
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I'm gonna type this just one more time.....


This is the latest issue of the email containing the w32.swen@mm virus.
It hit our servers Thursday a week ago.  It's very well done and you
will get hundreds of copies of it.  Looks *really* official in HTML.
Tell your 97% solution using friends that MICROSOFT NEVER SENDS PRODUCT
UPDATES BY E-MAIL. NEVER EVER. If they "install" this "update", unless
they're real comfortable in regedit, they'll need to take it to a shop
to be straightened out.  Figure probably a fifty dollar bill....


Details are available at Symantec's site.


In case you didn't understand the first time through....


MICROSOFT NEVER SENDS PRODUCT UPDATES BY E-MAIL. NEVER EVER.


Jim Arnott
Technical Support
Eastern Oregon Net, Inc
(541)962-7873 (800)785-7873




developtrust wrote:


>I thought I read recently on this list that Microsoft does not send update
>info by email. Today I received this message on what looked like a genuine
>Microsoft email with logos etc.. Was this the virus some of you were talking
>of?  William
>
>
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