EMailed Security Patch?

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Greg

Hi All

I recieved an email that displaye "Microsoft" in the
from field of outlook. It had, what was purported to be
a service pack, attached. I was of course suspicious
since this is a little far fetched. It would be very
unusual for MS to be mailing service packs to people.
When I check the actual email address it was
Microsoft [[email protected]]

Has anybody else seen this?
It doesn't look real. The message is a crummy text
message that doesn't really look at all professional.
Is it a new virus?

Cheers.
 
Greg said:
Hi All

I recieved an email that displaye "Microsoft" in the
from field of outlook. It had, what was purported to be
a service pack, attached. I was of course suspicious
since this is a little far fetched. It would be very
unusual for MS to be mailing service packs to people.
When I check the actual email address it was
Microsoft [[email protected]]

Has anybody else seen this?
It doesn't look real. The message is a crummy text
message that doesn't really look at all professional.
Is it a new virus?

Cheers.
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its probably an old virus. is your virus scanner up to date, it should have
flagged it as infected.
 
Yes, do not open it, check out the symantec site and look
for DUMARU, you will see the message from "microsoft"
 
MS never send out patches etc. to email so this attachment is very likely to
be a virus.
Why not send the email, with attachment to a virus company and ask them to
have a look at it?
Most antivirus companys have a "submit suspect files" etc on their websites.
Try that and see the outcome....

Si

Alex Kalmar said:
-----Original Message-----
Hi All

I recieved an email that displaye "Microsoft" in the
from field of outlook. It had, what was purported to be
a service pack, attached. I was of course suspicious
since this is a little far fetched. It would be very
unusual for MS to be mailing service packs to people.
When I check the actual email address it was
Microsoft [[email protected]]

Has anybody else seen this?
It doesn't look real. The message is a crummy text
message that doesn't really look at all professional.
Is it a new virus?

Cheers.
.
I've been receiving this same message for the past week
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or so.... I don't trust it and have been deleting it as
well as emptying the "deleted messages" box. I suspect
that it's not a new virus, but rather one that has been
around for a while in a different format, but I'm fairly
certain that it is a virus.

Good luck.
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Yes even I recevied the pacth which was an infected file.
Any one receving such kind of mails please delete them.
We really need to find out where these mails are coming
from

Nester Silveira.
 
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