email from MS Corporation Technical Services

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D J Palomo

I am repeatedly getting email from this source, which
certainly looks like MS official business. Symantic AV
rejects the .exe attachment, which is for the update file.

I'm beginning to wonder if this is a fake message not
really from MS. It's appeared 3 times today. For one
thing, I can't imagine Microsoft sending an email with
such an attachment when everybody has been told not to
accept them.
 
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


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Nicholas

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| I am repeatedly getting email from this source, which
| certainly looks like MS official business. Symantic AV
| rejects the .exe attachment, which is for the update file.
|
| I'm beginning to wonder if this is a fake message not
| really from MS. It's appeared 3 times today. For one
| thing, I can't imagine Microsoft sending an email with
| such an attachment when everybody has been told not to
| accept them.
|
 
Microsoft never attaches any files. They include links to their site in
their e-mails.
 
Greetings --

What you received is either a very common malicious hoax or the
output of a computer infected by one of several wide-spread, mass
emailing worms. The two most widely-known are:

W32.Gibe_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Dumaru_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

Microsoft never has, does not currently, and never will email
unsolicited security patches. At the most, if, and only if, you
subscribe to their security notification newsletter, they will send
you an email informing you that a new patch is available for
downloading.

Microsoft Policies on Software Distribution
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp

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

Any and all legitimate patches and updates are readily available
at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. (Notice that this is the true
URL, rather than the bogus one that may have been contained in the
email you received.) Any messages that point to any other source(s) or
claim to have the patch attached are bogus.


Bruce Chambers

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