Re: Is this real?
From: Larry Samuels MS-MVP XP \(Shell/User\) (larry_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/14/03
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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 01:02:03 -0400
Microsoft never sends unsolicited files by email.
DO NOT open the file--it is NOT from MS.
REPEAT:Microsoft NEVER sends unsolicited files by email.
It is a virus masquerading as MS security.
The current one circulating is dumaru.b
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.dumaru.b@mm.html
or a variant of the gibe worm.
Removal tool for gibe is at
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.gibe@mm.removal.tool.html
If by chance you did open the file:
>From a post by Bill Sanderson MVP:
Here's where to get the removal tool:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.dumaru@mm.removal.tool.html
Read the instructions completely, paying particular attention to the part
about System Restore on XP and Me.
-- Larry Samuels MS-MVP (Windows-Shell/User) Associate Expert Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at http://home.earthlink.net/~larrysamuels/WS2003FAQ.htm Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone "Joel" <Joel.levandowski@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:009901c37a7b$821d4bf0$a001280a@phx.gbl... > I have been receiving the same e-mail...4 times since > tuesday...all into my bulk mail inbox thru sbc-yahoo. I > asked sbc-yahoo to check it out...they responded that it > was from Microsoft. I'm still leary thats why I'm here > now. I did ask them to confirm. > >-----Original Message----- > >I received an email from "security@microsoft.com". The > >subject was "install this patch immediately!!!" The > body > >of the email was: > > > >"Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch > >now! > >There are dangerous virus in the Internet now! > >More than 500.000 already infected!" > > > > > >There was an attachment that was called "patch.exe". > > > >I didn't do anything with it but wanted to find out if > it > >really came from Microsoft. > >. > >
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