Re: Microsoft vs Norton

From: Mike Aubert (mikenews2_at_2000trainers.com)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:04:50 -0600

Hi Kate,

That's not an email from Microsoft - it's a virus. The virus forges the
e-mail address to make it look like the email is from Microsoft but it's
actually not. This page has more info on the virus and if you scroll about
half way down you can see a picture of the fake Microsoft email:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html

As far as I'm aware, Microsoft will never send you files via email unless
you request them.

Just to be safe online, never open files from people you do not know or even
if you do know the person and the file ends with .exe, .com, .bat, .pif,
.scr (or if the file is zipped and the .zip file contains one of these file
types inside) do not open the file*.

Mike

* These are just the most common ones, there are a bunch more that are
considered "dangerous." Here is a link to one list that came up on Google:

http://www.kingsley-hughes.com/tech/safe_and_unsafe_file_extensions.htm

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"kate" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:060c01c3fad1$e5932340$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Today I received from Microsoft an e mail headed "newest
> internet critical patch" with an attachment. When I
> opened the attachment, a message read "Norton Antivirus
> had removed the attachment: update. exe, because it was
> infected with the W32.Swen.A@mm virus."
>
> Does anyone know what's happened here?
>
> Thank you.

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