I'm getting emails

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Mountain Jack

Howdie: I've been getting emails for the past few months
from "Microsoft" that my McAfee has been telling me are
contaminated. They are being sent from the following
address.


(e-mail address removed)

Have any idea if this is for real or someone trying to
infect my computer? Thanx in advance.

Mountain Jack
 
* Mountain Jack said:
Howdie: I've been getting emails for the past few months
from "Microsoft" that my McAfee has been telling me are
contaminated.
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There's your first hint, McAfee is trying to tell you something. :)


(e-mail address removed)

Does that look like a real email address that ms would use?
Have any idea if this is for real or someone trying to
infect my computer? Thanx in advance.

Mountain Jack
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Take a look around Jack and you'd see that this is a virus and definatly
not from ms. The only virus you'll get from them comes on a pretty cd
all nicely shrink wrapped up. :)

They will only send you the notification of a patch and then only if you
subscribed to that service, they don't send out the patch.

Jason
 
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 very probably 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

How to Tell If a Microsoft Security-Related Message Is Genuine
http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_mail.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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