This is maybe growing to major risk. It is detectec today and
spreading...

Symantec:
"Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express) - Critical Update.
"Trojan.Xombe is a Trojan horse that downloads an additional file from
a predetermined Web site.

This Trojan horse has been distributed as an unsolicited email,
purporting to be an security update for Windows XP, sent by from
Microsoft.

The email has the following characteristics:

From: (E-Mail Removed)
Subject: Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express) - Critical Update.
Attachment: winxp_sp1.exe(4.10KB)"

Ah, hell, that's been going on for months now. Microsoft has had it on
their website since at least August that they don't send unsolicited emails
with Service Packs in them....


"Jari Lehtonen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> This is maybe growing to major risk. It is detectec today and
> spreading...
>
> Symantec:
> "Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express) - Critical Update.
> "Trojan.Xombe is a Trojan horse that downloads an additional file from
> a predetermined Web site.
>
> This Trojan horse has been distributed as an unsolicited email,
> purporting to be an security update for Windows XP, sent by from
> Microsoft.
>
> The email has the following characteristics:
>
> From: (E-Mail Removed)
> Subject: Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express) - Critical Update.
> Attachment: winxp_sp1.exe(4.10KB)"
>
>
>

"Jari Lehtonen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> This is maybe growing to major risk. It is detectec today and
> spreading...
>
> Symantec:
> "Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express) - Critical Update.
> "Trojan.Xombe is a Trojan horse that downloads an additional file from
> a predetermined Web site.
>
> This Trojan horse has been distributed as an unsolicited email,
> purporting to be an security update for Windows XP, sent by from
> Microsoft.
>
> The email has the following characteristics:
>
> From: (E-Mail Removed)
> Subject: Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express) - Critical Update.
> Attachment: winxp_sp1.exe(4.10KB)"

Beware of any and all executable e-mail attachments, *especially* the
unsolicited ones.

~ There, that should just about cover it. :O)

Jari Lehtonen wrote:
>
> This is maybe growing to major risk. It is detectec today and
> spreading...
>
> Symantec:
> "Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express) - Critical Update.
> "Trojan.Xombe is a Trojan horse that downloads an additional file from
> a predetermined Web site.
>
> This Trojan horse has been distributed as an unsolicited email,
> purporting to be an security update for Windows XP, sent by from
> Microsoft.
>
> The email has the following characteristics:
>
> From: (E-Mail Removed)
> Subject: Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express) - Critical Update.
> Attachment: winxp_sp1.exe(4.10KB)"

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...icy/swdist.asp

J
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