Use this patch immediately ! Emails

[Wally]

I have received the email below at least 9 times in the
past week and I keep deleting them. I have NOT opened the
attachment that comes with it. Usually anything that
comes from Microsoft is more official looking like the
updates and such. Can any one fill me in on what this
really is?

Thanks!


ALERT!!!
This e-mail in its original form contained one or more
attached files that were infected with a virus or worm,
or contained another type of security threat.

The following attachments were infected and have been
repaired:
No attachments are in this category.

The following attachments were deleted due to an
inability to clean them:
1. patch.exe: W32.Dumaru@mm

The Following attachments were not delivered due to
inbound mail policy violations:
No attachments are in this category.


Road Runner does not contact the sender of the infected
attachment(s) in the event that they were not actually
sent from the indicated party.

 

[Squire]

This is a Worm, Wally,
Be thankful you didn't open them.

 

[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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[Alex Nichol]

I have received the email below at least 9 times in the
past week and I keep deleting them. I have NOT opened the
attachment that comes with it. Usually anything that
comes from Microsoft is more official looking like the
updates and such. Can any one fill me in on what this
really is?

It is a very nasty malicious hoax endeavouring to persuade you to
install a singularly nasty virus, and do it voluntarily. Microsoft
*never* sent things as email attachments.

You are lucky to receive only 9 in the week: The operator of out
mvps.org mail service was getting it flooded by 20 a *second*

 

[Jim Macklin]

I have been getting them only one account (a Hotmail
account) and they were all going into junk/bulk box. I
changed the rule and now junk mail goes directly to the
deleted folder.

I was getting about 10 an hour the first day or so, but that
dropped to 1 and hour Sunday. But still it doesn't take too
many 144 or 156 KB files to max-out the 2 MB Hotmail limit.

If I get a notice that I've won the Publisher's Clearing
House Give-Away and it goes into Junk, I'll never know.


message

I have received the email below at least 9 times in the
past week and I keep deleting them. I have NOT opened the
attachment that comes with it. Usually anything that
comes from Microsoft is more official looking like the
updates and such. Can any one fill me in on what this
really is?

It is a very nasty malicious hoax endeavouring to persuade
you to
install a singularly nasty virus, and do it voluntarily.
Microsoft
*never* sent things as email attachments.

You are lucky to receive only 9 in the week: The operator of
out
mvps.org mail service was getting it flooded by 20 a
*second*