XP update deleted as a virus

I got an email from Microsoft about a security update.
The update was attached to the email, but my antivirus,
Trend Micro PCcillin, deleted it because it thought it
was a virus. How can I get around this? Where is this
update located?

It is a virus - not an update. The update does not exist.
Microsoft NEVER SENDS PATCHES via e-mail!

"alex" <alex@rxdocuments.com> wrote in message
news:027101c381ea$b6da0e20$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I got an email from Microsoft about a security update.
> The update was attached to the email, but my antivirus,
> Trend Micro PCcillin, deleted it because it thought it
> was a virus. How can I get around this? Where is this
> update located?

Say a respectful and heartfelt "Thank You" to PCcillin - it was doing its
job!

Microsoft NEVER - repeat NEVER - sends updates/patches/fixes or any other
software as attachments to emails. Delete these emails immediately, as the
attachment, if opened, contains a particularly nasty worm/virus.

Windows updates can be obtained from:

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp

--
Cheryl Fischer
Law/Sys Associates
Houston, TX

"alex" <alex@rxdocuments.com> wrote in message
news:027101c381ea$b6da0e20$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I got an email from Microsoft about a security update.
> The update was attached to the email, but my antivirus,
> Trend Micro PCcillin, deleted it because it thought it
> was a virus. How can I get around this? Where is this
> update located?

alex:
PCcillin did its job. The "update" is a virus. MS does not send security
updates, patches, fixes, etc. via email. There are several of these phony MS
update emails floating around. If the one you received referred to the
"September 2003, Cumulative Patch", have a look at this link...
http://securityresponse.symantec.co....swen.a@mm.html
randwulf57

"alex" <alex@rxdocuments.com> wrote in message
news:027101c381ea$b6da0e20$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I got an email from Microsoft about a security update.
> The update was attached to the email, but my antivirus,
> Trend Micro PCcillin, deleted it because it thought it
> was a virus. How can I get around this? Where is this
> update located?

Greetings --

What you received is either a very common malicious hoax or the
output of a computer infected by one of several wide-spread, mass
emailing worms. The most widely-known are:

W32.Swen.A_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.co....swen.a@mm.html

W32.Dumaru_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.co....dumaru@mm.html

W32.Gibe_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.co...32.gibe@mm.html

Microsoft never has, does not currently, and never will email
unsolicited security patches. At the most, if, and only if, you
subscribe to their security notification newsletter, they will send
you an email informing you that a new patch is available for
downloading.

Microsoft Policies on Software Distribution
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...licy/swdist.asp

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin Emails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr.../patch_hoax.asp

Any and all legitimate patches and updates are readily available
at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. (Notice that this is the true
URL, rather than the bogus one that may have been contained in the
email you received.) Any messages that point to any other source(s) or
claim to have the patch attached are bogus.

You're receiving these emails because your email address is in
the address book of someone infected with a worm, and/or because you
posted your real email address somewhere on-line, either in a forum
accessible to the public and spambots, such as Usenet, or on an
untrustworthy web site that subsequently sold your address as part of
a mailing list. One thing you can do is notify _everyone_ with whom
you've ever corresponded via email that one or more of them may be
infected with a mass emailing worm, and should take the appropriate
steps.

There's probably no way of blocking all of the bogus messages, but
you can greatly reduce the number you get by creating a rule, based
upon the most commonly used subject lines, to delete the emails from
the server without ever downloading them.


Bruce Chambers

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"alex" <alex@rxdocuments.com> wrote in message
news:027101c381ea$b6da0e20$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I got an email from Microsoft about a security update.
> The update was attached to the email, but my antivirus,
> Trend Micro PCcillin, deleted it because it thought it
> was a virus. How can I get around this? Where is this
> update located?