Re: WARNING: Bogus Update emailed out in Microsoft's Name
From: John Elsbury (johne@snospam.sovereign.co.nz)
Date: 02/24/03
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From: johne@snospam.sovereign.co.nz (John Elsbury) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:36:19 GMT
On 23 Feb 2003 17:01:20 -0500, adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) wrote:
>
>This message crawled into my inbox a few minutes ago and
>it's a very professional looking update notice, especially
>in html.
>
>There was a file called 386patch.exe attached.
Product of an e-mail virus. Possibly Klez.
>
>There really is a machine called newsletters.microsoft.net. I can't believe
> that MS would send out an unsolicited security update by email.
>
They wouldn't. It came seemingly from somewhere in .sk.
>I have no idea where else to report this.
alt.comp.virus
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