virus dumaru

[Kimberly]

Hello,
Over the past 2 days I have received 4 emails, which say
they are from Microsoft. Subject is us this patch
immediately. When I scan them, it says virus
W32.dumaru@mm I did a search on the site and could not
find anything. New virus to watch for?
Kim

 

[frank]

-----Original Message-----
Hello,
Over the past 2 days I have received 4 emails, which say
they are from Microsoft. Subject is us this patch
immediately. When I scan them, it says virus
W32.dumaru@mm I did a search on the site and could not
find anything. New virus to watch for?
Kim
.

W32.Dumaru@mm is a mass-mailing worm that drops an IRC
Trojan onto the infected machine. The worm gathers email
addresses from certain file types and uses its own SMTP
engine to email itself.

The email has the following characteristics:

From: "Microsoft" <[email protected]>
Subject: Use this patch immediately !
Message:
Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now!
There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
More than 500.000 already infected!
Attachment: patch.exe

Get rid of it Kim

 

[Mike Bouffard]

-----Original Message-----
Hello,
Over the past 2 days I have received 4 emails, which say
they are from Microsoft. Subject is us this patch
immediately. When I scan them, it says virus
W32.dumaru@mm I did a search on the site and could not
find anything. New virus to watch for?
Kim
.
From what I have heard from Microsoft, they NEVER will

send you a file via Email. They may direct you to their
web site but will not send you the file directly. What
you describe is mentioned on Microsoft's site as one of
the symptoms of how his virus is spread. I use Norton
Anti Virus and have updated it daily for the past week.
But on the other hand, I'm a layed off Telecommunications
worker, so I have the time.