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Subject:Re: Virus as "Microsoft Security Bulletin" New twist!
From:Jack
Date:Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:52:35 -0800

On 19 Sep 2003, at 14:26, don spence wrote:

> There's a new one circulating that somebody went to a lot of trouble to
> create.
> It has three attachments. Two are html docs that open in your email
> reader with lots of official microsoft colour and logos and proper
> english. Looks very official. The third attachment is of course the
> virus.
>
> Again           MICROSOFT DOES NOT SEND EMAIL PATCHES, SECURITY FIXES ETC,
>
> Be very wary!
>

Yes.  And to make it even more official looking, the links in the docs are
genuine links to Microsoft sites (yes, I checked), so I suspect these are
real MS documents that have been "borrowed" and modified as necessary for
their purposes.  I have to believe these are going to catch some people by
surprise.  I've gotten several today (and I typically go months without any
attempts).  They do vary in content and formatting but are similar enough to
have come from the same original source.  //Jack

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