Re: Persistent spamming in the name of Microsoft

From: Keith W. McCammon (km_at_km.com)
Date: 06/30/03


Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:53:22 -0400


It's either a virus, or a illegitimate web page attempting to propagate a
virus (I believe the one of which I was aware was corrected last week,
though). Nothing anyone can do to stop it. Just delete 'em and update your
AV.

> Is anyone else getting this problem ?
> So far today we have received around 300 spams purporting
> to be from various arms of MS and announcing a
> new "Security Update".
> Is MS looking into this ?
> When will it be resolved ?
>
> We are/were a registered MS developer - are other
> developers getting the same problem ?



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