Re: Is this a hacker's trick?? **WARNING**

From: George Ruch (george.ruch@3lefties.com)
Date: 09/16/02


From: George Ruch <george.ruch@3lefties.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:07:57 -0600


"JT" <jason31t@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Today I received this email with an attachment q216309.exe
>supposedly from Microsoft.com {the actual email address
>was rdquest12@microsoft.com} This is the message:

[chop]

>The only reasons I was worried is because one: I have
>Windows Update and I searched the attachment name through
>Microsoft and there was none. Two: It went to an email
>address not registered with Microsoft. Is it real or fake?

It's a serious fake. 1) MS doesn't send unsolicited updates, 2) The
references to MS02-005 and Q219___ don't track.

Dump it - fast.

| George Ruch



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