strange e-mail from [email protected]"

[Toshi M]

I receive every day an email from (e-mail address removed),
and my ISP gives also warning that it has a virus:

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Warning: This message has had one or more attachments
removed
Warning: (patch.exe).
Warning: Please read the "VirusWarning.txt" attachment(s)
for more information.

Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now!
There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
More than 500.000 already infected!
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I wonder if microsoft is indeed spreading a virus or
patch.exe is not a virus or someone is pretending to be a
microsoft???????

-----more info on the e-mail------
This is a message from the WT.Net E-Mail Virus/Spam
Protection Service
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The original e-mail attachment "patch.exe"
was believed to be infected by a virus and has been
replaced by this warning
message.

If you wish to receive a copy of the *infected*
attachment, please
e-mail helpdesk and include the whole of this message
in your request. Alternatively, you can call them, with
the contents of this message to hand when you call.

At Fri Sep 19 00:21:55 2003 the virus scanner said:
patch.exe contains Worm.Dumaru

Note to Help Desk: Look on Mailz5.hou.wt.net in 20030919
(message h8J5Lrkp012147).

 

[Scott R]

Microsoft doesn't send updates. You must download them from the website. I
recommend deleting it ASAP.

 

[Joel Craig]

You should thank your system support folks for checking
your e-mail. The email that you are receiving is indeed
part of the Dumaru worm. See more info at
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32
(e-mail address removed)

If it is really bothering you, you might get some info
from the e-mail headers. Someone you know, or someone that
knows someone you know has an infected computer with this
virus/worm and it is sending you and likely many others
this message. Indeed, it is not from Microsoft and the e-
mail can be deleted. Anyone you know that receives this
message with patch.exe intact should not execute it.
Microsoft doesn't e-mail patches to customers. Customers
are requested to use Windows Update to receive patches.

Joel

 

[H Leboeuf]

Microsoft NEVER sends attachments. It a virus.
Delete it.

 

[Jim Lynch]

I awoke this morning to find seven E-Mails from
Microsoft, with their official looking web page and
links to Microsoft. Knowing full well that Microsoft
WILL NEVER SEND AND .EXE file, Unless requested from a
Tech, I called the securityu desk at Microsoft, at 6am
MST and they were aware of the virus problem...