Virus attachment?

[TheGWFamily]

I received a new MS Nov 2003 Cumulative Update today, flanked top and bottom
with the message that it had been sent with a virus attachment, sworm or
something like that attached and deleted. The post looked official enough. I
almost know where it came from-- I was chatting in an AOL chatroom Denver, some
guy immediately began being rude and nasty toward me and the guy I was chatting
with was telling him to leave me alone.. I got kicked offline, losing my
connection (not officially). Dunno what his problem was tho I used to live
there, but I doubt that had anything to do with it. I received the patch post
on that screenname, which is NOT the acct.'s primary, and of all our
screennames, that was the only one to receive it. I have been gone and
returned to find it.

I'm ticked because we were hacked once. This new computer (and we bought two,
the other fine), has considerable problems and every time I d/l a security
patch, it's fine for a day and the next day it's messed up again.

I receive messages all the time about my memory being too low. I d/l the
Lavasoft and it was great for one night, no problem. The next day, I was only
able to stay online a short time before being told my virtual memory is low
again.

I feel we are being harrassed. Over the years, since the first day I signed on
to AOL I've had problems. In fact, we were kicked offline recently, the post
we were sent of my daughter's violation was very bogus, I replied to TOS and
received an apology, stating we were issued the warning in error. doh. I
refused to have AOL for many years. When we bought these two computers, we got
3 free months of AOL and the kids love it. But it's been a real hastle. I
really believe someone at AOL is harrassing me. Any ideas???

Please advise on the update. Sorry I can't tell you the exact worm name but
it's on t'other username. What about running the Product Recovery Disk to
start over on this computer.

Thanks.

Mrs. GW

 

[The Unknown]

Bogus e-mails (with virus) that ALOT of people are getting. Don't open it,
just delete the e-mails.

 

[Jim Macklin]

Microsoft NEVER send email with patches or attachments...the
email you have is dangerous and should just be deleted.

Also, The eBay scam is back, looking liker a real eBay email
it asks for you to resubmit your data including bank pin
numbers and eBay pin.


| I received a new MS Nov 2003 Cumulative Update today,
flanked top and bottom
| with the message that it had been sent with a virus
attachment, sworm or
| something like that attached and deleted. The post looked
official enough. I
| almost know where it came from-- I was chatting in an AOL
chatroom Denver, some
| guy immediately began being rude and nasty toward me and
the guy I was chatting
| with was telling him to leave me alone.. I got kicked
offline, losing my
| connection (not officially). Dunno what his problem was
tho I used to live
| there, but I doubt that had anything to do with it. I
received the patch post
| on that screenname, which is NOT the acct.'s primary, and
of all our
| screennames, that was the only one to receive it. I have
been gone and
| returned to find it.
|
| I'm ticked because we were hacked once. This new computer
(and we bought two,
| the other fine), has considerable problems and every time
I d/l a security
| patch, it's fine for a day and the next day it's messed up
again.
|
| I receive messages all the time about my memory being too
low. I d/l the
| Lavasoft and it was great for one night, no problem. The
next day, I was only
| able to stay online a short time before being told my
virtual memory is low
| again.
|
| I feel we are being harrassed. Over the years, since the
first day I signed on
| to AOL I've had problems. In fact, we were kicked offline
recently, the post
| we were sent of my daughter's violation was very bogus, I
replied to TOS and
| received an apology, stating we were issued the warning in
error. doh. I
| refused to have AOL for many years. When we bought these
two computers, we got
| 3 free months of AOL and the kids love it. But it's been
a real hastle. I
| really believe someone at AOL is harrassing me. Any
ideas???
|
| Please advise on the update. Sorry I can't tell you the
exact worm name but
| it's on t'other username. What about running the Product
Recovery Disk to
| start over on this computer.
|
| Thanks.
|
| Mrs. GW
|
|
|
|
|

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

What you received is either a very common, malicious hoax or the
output of a computer infected by one of several widely publicized,
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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