

| 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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