Alert: Worm posing as IE cumulative patch
From: Russ (Russ.Cooper@RC.ON.CA)Date: 03/06/02
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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:08:44 -0500 From: Russ <Russ.Cooper@RC.ON.CA> To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
Lots of people have emailed me about the email making the rounds which
states its from "Microsoft Corporation Security Center" and has a
subject line of "Internet Security Update".
The email has an attachment which the message claims to be the "1 Mar
2002 Cumulative Patch" for IE.
In case you don't already know, there isn't such a patch and its not
from Microsoft. Microsoft never emails out patches.
The bogus email is actually the GIBE worm, a description for which can
be seen at;
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/gibe.shtml
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.gibe@mm.html
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99377.htm
http://www.antivirus.com/cgi-bin/vinfo.pl?OneVirus=WORM_GIBE.DR
Just to provide a few references (check the home page of your anti-virus
vendor for details)
Cheers,
Russ - NTBugtraq Editor
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