I keep getting over 50 updates and patches every day

[Gesim]

I keep getting over 50 updates and patches every day.
How can I stop this or reduce to something normal.

 

[Brooke]

Can you possibly set up your mail so that email with attachments cannot get
through? In this day and age, attachments can be an expensive luxury to
open, even if they "seem" to come from friends. The mail you have been
getting is FULL of viruses. Many other computer users have been infected
already.

 

[Jim Macklin]

If you are using POP server email you can create message
rules.
If you are using web mail you will need to go to the web
mail pages (Hotmail, Yahoo) to set rules there.
Set your Outlook Express to not download all messages and
turn the preview pane off (view menu) (put a preview button
on your toolbar) and delete the bad email based on from and
subject and attachments.


| I keep getting over 50 updates and patches every day.
| How can I stop this or reduce to something normal.

 

[Trevor Marsh]

I keep getting over 50 updates and patches every day.
How can I stop this or reduce to something normal.

If you mean that you are getting e-mails supposedly from Microsoft telling
you about updates DO NOT OPEN THEM! They are viruses. Microsoft NEVER send
out updates in e-mail form so just delete any you get unopened.

More information can be found here:-

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

If you have opened and run any of the attachments you can get a cleaner tool
from :-

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

Follow the instructions on that page and them make sure your anti-virus
program is kept up to date, all AV software vendors have updated their AV
Definitions to detect this worm/virus.

HTH,

Trev

 

[Bruce Chambers]

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 most widely-known are:

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

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

W32.Gibe_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.

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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