what gives?

[P. Ewanicki]

You send me notice of a patch and include an attachment
titled "Installer 7.exe" which contains a worm, according
to my Norton scan. You may notice a decline in repeat
customers.

 

[dev]

P. Ewanicki said:

You send me notice of a patch and include an attachment
titled "Installer 7.exe" which contains a worm, according
to my Norton scan. You may notice a decline in repeat
customers.

MS sends no patches via email. Nasty folks do that. Never open an
unknown attachment without first scanning. Legit updates are available via
HELP & SUPPORT|Windows Updates. Also see the links below, for links and tips.

 

[Cindy Winegarden]

Hi P.,

The email you received was NOT from Microsoft. Microsoft does not EVER send
updates via email - they may send you a notice of an update and a URL where
you can go get it but they never send attachments.

By the way, I have been getting about 100 of those things each day for the
last several days, so you're not the only one. I'm glad your Norton caught
the worm before it harmed your computer.

 

[Justin Jones]

If you ever get an e-mail posing to be a message from
Microsoft saying they have a security update please
download it now with an attachment, DON'T and I repeat
DON'T open it up. It is not a message from Microsoft.
Microsoft never sends updates via e-mail.

Justin Jones

 

[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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[Ken Blake]

In

You

You? Who do you think is "you"? If you think you're addressing
Microsoft here, you're mistaken.

This is a peer support newsgroup. We are all just Windows XP
users, trying to help each other when we can.

send me notice of a patch and include an attachment

Despite the appearance of the message, it did *not* come from
Microsoft. You may want to make note of the fact that Microsoft
*never* sends out patches via E--mail.

titled "Installer 7.exe" which contains a worm, according
to my Norton scan. You may notice a decline in repeat
customers.

Do not ascribe to Microsoft problems that result from malicious
writers of viruses, worm, etc.

 

[debbie]

what you are receiving is not from Microsoft... I've been
getting spammed with the stuff for the last 5 days.