Beware of Windows update mail!

[Jari Lehtonen]

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 address removed)
Subject: Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express) - Critical Update.
Attachment: winxp_sp1.exe(4.10KB)"

 

[William Morris]

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....

 

[FromTheRafters]

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 address 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)

 

[me]

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 address removed)
Subject: Windows XP Service Pack 1 (Express) - Critical Update.
Attachment: winxp_sp1.exe(4.10KB)"

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp

J