viruses

for the last three days i continue to receive via email
microsoft security patches to download, which i have not.
and also keep on getting notifications from inet
server,damonmail server stc of e-mails that could not be
delivered. the last one said blal-blal could not deliver
mail to exlmzasmire@puremail.com, thay all have addresses
of the same type, letters only etc. any clue what these
items are???
please help

I keep getting these aswell,so do others.Most of the
attachments have a virus and they only seem to affect msn
hotmail.Its really annoying as i have only limited space.
(dont want to pay for extra).the best way of preventing
them is stop giving out your e-mail to websites like this
one.
>-----Original Message-----
>for the last three days i continue to receive via email
>microsoft security patches to download, which i have
not.
>and also keep on getting notifications from inet
>server,damonmail server stc of e-mails that could not be
>delivered. the last one said blal-blal could not deliver
>mail to exlmzasmire@puremail.com, thay all have
addresses
>of the same type, letters only etc. any clue what these
>items are???
>please help
>.
>

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

How to Tell If a Microsoft Security-Related Message Is Genuine
http://www.microsoft.com/security/a...ticate_mail.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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having both at once. -- RAH


"roy" <cellulandfl@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:04a601c38ea1$2ddaaad0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> for the last three days i continue to receive via email
> microsoft security patches to download, which i have not.
> and also keep on getting notifications from inet
> server,damonmail server stc of e-mails that could not be
> delivered. the last one said blal-blal could not deliver
> mail to exlmzasmire@puremail.com, thay all have addresses
> of the same type, letters only etc. any clue what these
> items are???
> please help