Re: Security updates via e-mail?
From: Peggiesu (peggiesu_at_psnw.com)
Date: 09/30/03
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:38:18 -0700
I opened the email, but not the attachment. Norton hasn't
caught anything (I have the latest edition installed).
Should I worry?
>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings --
>
> What you received is either a very common malicious
hoax or the
>output of a computer infected by one of several wide-
spread, mass
>emailing worms. The most widely-known are:
>
>W32.Swen.A_mm
>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w
32.swen.a@mm.html
>
>W32.Dumaru_mm
>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w
32.dumaru@mm.html
>
>W32.Gibe_mm
>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w
32.gibe@mm.html
>
> Microsoft never has, does not currently, and never
will email
>unsolicited security patches. At the most, if, and only
if, you
>subscribe to their security notification newsletter,
they will send
>you an email informing you that a new patch is available
for
>downloading.
>
>Microsoft Policies on Software Distribution
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?
url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp
>
>Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin Emails
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?
url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp
>
>How to Tell If a Microsoft Security-Related Message Is
Genuine
>http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_
mail.asp
>
> Any and all legitimate patches and updates are
readily available
>at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. (Notice that
this is the true
>URL, rather than the bogus one that may have been
contained in the
>email you received.) Any messages that point to any
other source(s) or
>claim to have the patch attached are bogus.
>
> You're receiving these emails because your email
address is in
>the address book of someone infected with a worm, and/or
because you
>posted your real email address somewhere on-line, either
in a forum
>accessible to the public and spambots, such as Usenet,
or on an
>untrustworthy web site that subsequently sold your
address as part of
>a mailing list. One thing you can do is notify
_everyone_ with whom
>you've ever corresponded via email that one or more of
them may be
>infected with a mass emailing worm, and should take the
appropriate
>steps.
>
> There's probably no way of blocking all of the bogus
messages, but
>you can greatly reduce the number you get by creating a
rule, based
>upon the most commonly used subject lines, to delete the
emails from
>the server without ever downloading them.
>
>
>Bruce Chambers
>
>--
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>
>You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't
ever count on
>having both at once. -- RAH
>
>
>"Sonny" <cybercnc@netzero.net> wrote in message
>news:0ec901c386dc$2a8df7a0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>> The past week I have received several e-mails about MS
>> security updates. When I click on the properties to
check
>> out the address it doesn't look right. How do I know if
>> the e-mails are truley from Microsoft?
>>
>
>
>.
>
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