Bogus email from Microsoft

[Jeff]

Why can't someone put a stop to the bogus emails from
Microsoft service and support with embedded worm
viruses????
I keep getting about 20 a day!!!! My anti-virus seems to
catch them..but they all look officially from Microsoft
and have their header...and web look with a message about
the new release of the September cumulative security
patch....with a virus.

 

[Ph0eniX]

Set up a filter.

 

[Roger Abell]

Why can't someone put a stop to the bogus emails from
Microsoft service and support with embedded worm
viruses????
I keep getting about 20 a day!!!! My anti-virus seems to
catch them..but they all look officially from Microsoft
and have their header...and web look with a message about
the new release of the September cumulative security
patch....with a virus.

If there are 250,000 separate people that have
allowed their machines to become infected with
this virus, and those machines are now sending
these out, just how would you propose to get that
quarter million people to stop their machines ?

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

Why can't someone put a stop to the bogus emails from
Microsoft service and support with embedded worm
viruses????

They are not from Microsoft.

To help yourself, don't use your real e-mail address when posting to public
forums or newsgroups
see http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spam.asp


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Mike
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[Ph0eniX]

Down the memory lane we go - Outlook 97 - it's been so long since I used it
that I don't even remember. You can set it up in Outlook Express 6 for sure
though.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

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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