Really Microsoft?

[Glen Corlin]

Hi all. Every once in a while I get an e-mail, supposedly from MS,
containing a supposed security patch and telling me to install it. The
latest one comes from "MS Corporation Network Customer Support,
(e-mail address removed)", and contains a file called Q256158.exe.
Is this really MS, or someone propagating a virus?
Thanks.

 

[purplehaz]

It's a virus. Microsoft NEVER sends attachments.

 

[Nicholas]

Glen --

Some devious person is "spoofing" Microsoft. The email message is
not from Microsoft and should be deleted immediately!

Please take a moment to read the following article:

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin E-mails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp

--
Nicholas

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| Hi all. Every once in a while I get an e-mail, supposedly from MS,
| containing a supposed security patch and telling me to install it. The
| latest one comes from "MS Corporation Network Customer Support,
| (e-mail address removed)", and contains a file called Q256158.exe.
| Is this really MS, or someone propagating a virus?
| Thanks.
|
| --
| Glen Corlin
| 21st Century Schizoid Man
|
|

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

Hi Glen,

As other have stated, Microsoft never sends out patches unsolicted. Use
Windows Update to get the hotfixes you need and delete the spoofed email
without opening the attachment.

Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Glen Corlin]

Thanks, all. I Suspected as much!

 

[Papa]

It is definitely NOT from Microsoft. Delete the message, and DO NOT open any
attachments it may have (could contain a virus).

Microsoft NEVER send unsolicited e-mail.

 

[Donald McDaniel]

It is definitely NOT from Microsoft. Delete the message, and DO NOT
open any attachments it may have (could contain a virus).

Microsoft NEVER send unsolicited e-mail.

*Every single email* I have gotten purporting to be from Microsoft
containing a "patch" to be installed showed up in Norton Antivirus as
containing a virus.

Microsoft *does not* distribute its patches as attachments to email.
PERIOD.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hi all. Every once in a while I get an e-mail, supposedly from MS,
containing a supposed security patch and telling me to install it. The
latest one comes from "MS Corporation Network Customer Support,
(e-mail address removed)", and contains a file called Q256158.exe.
Is this really MS, or someone propagating a virus?

MS *never* send out such patches by email. This is a hoaxer trying to
persuade you to run the attachment, which is a virus