Re: ? e-mail message

From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 10/17/03


Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:39:55 -0400

Be thankful for the ISP or system admin who has deleted these viral
attachments. Neither the message nor the attachment is genuine--don't give
it another thought--just delete them.

"Larry" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0bd701c3943d$ad4e94b0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> The following e-mail message keeps appearing. Is it a
> vaild Microsoft message or is it known to contain a virus?
>
> From: Microsoft
>
> Subject: Use this patch immediately!
>
> Attach: DELETEDO.TXT (412bytes)
>
> "ALERT!!!
> This e-mail in its original form contained one or more
> attached files that were infected with a virus or worm, or
> contained another type of security threat.
>
> The following attachments were infected and have been
> repaired:
> No attachments are in this category.
>
> The following attachments were deleted due to an inability
> to clean them:
> 1. patch.exe: W32.Dumaru@mm
>
> The Following attachments were not delivered due to
> inbound mail policy violations:
> No attachments are in this category.
>
>
> Road Runner does not contact the sender of the infected
> attachment(s) in the event that they were not actually
> sent from the indicated party.
>
> Please contact the sender directly to alert them of their
> issue with infected files if you wish to do so.
>
> For more information on Road Runner's virus filtering
> initiative, visit our Help & Member Services pages at
> http://help.rr.com, or the virus filtering information
> page directly at http://help.rr.com/faqs/e_mgsp.html.
>
> ------------ Original message text follows ------------
>
>
> Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now!
> There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
> More than 500.000 already infected!
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------
>



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