got MS Mailing?

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Only about half the world or more has it <G>.  It's not genuine.  It's spam 
loaded with a virus.  If you are on a windows machine they hope you run it. 
 If you're on Linux you simply see the pathetic attempt and the attachment. 
 MS doesn't do updates via email.

Ken Moffat wrote:

> I have received this thing a few times. Seems genuine, but has an
> attachment that is called "installer.exe" that i would bet is a
> virus/trojan/whatever:
> =====================
> MS Customer
> 
> this is the latest version of security update, the "September 2003,
> Cumulative Patch" update which eliminates all known security
> vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS
> Outlook Express as well as three newly discovered vulnerabilities.
> Install now to help protect your computer from these vulnerabilities.
> This update includes the functionality of all previously released patches.
> [snip]
> * Recommendation* Customers should install the patch at the earliest
> opportunity.
> =====================
> 
> Anyone else seen this?
> 

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