Email from 'Microsoft'

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Yes, that's the sad thing about it - they will see MS in the message and 
figure it's really from MS.

Tim Wunder wrote:

> The sad thing is... there are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of
> PC users that will run the thing :-(
> 
> On Sunday 24 August 2003 4:50 pm, someone claiming to be Brett I. Holcomb
> wrote:
>> If you are crazy enough to run it <G> please let us know what it infects
>> you with <G>.
>>
>> Ian Stephen wrote:
>> > Look what I just got, with an attachment "patch.exe"
>> >
>> > Microsoft must like me!
>> >
>> > (Now if I can only figure out how to get IE to run with Wine maybe I
>> > can use this patch ;-)
>> >
>> > <pasted email>
>> >
>> >
>> >      From:
>> > Microsoft
>> > <security at microsoft.com>
>> >        To:
>> > ianstepn at shaw.ca
>> >   Subject:
>> > Use this
>> > patch
>> > immediately
>> > !
>> >      Date:
>> > Sun, 24 Aug
>> > 2003
>> > 11:30:35
>> > -0600 (MDT)
>> >
>> > Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now!
>> > There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
>> > More than 500.000 already infected!
>> >
>> > </pasted email>
> 

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Brett I. Holcomb
brettholcomb at R777charter.net
AKA Grunt <><
Registered Linux User #188143
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