Microsoft email w/virus attachment

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Is anybody else getting newsletters from Microsoft and
return mail notices with virus attachments. This has been
going on for three days. Very annoying even though Norton
deletes the attachment. The only thing I have done
differently is post on this board with my email address
and sign up for Microsoft newsletter. How can I stop this?
 
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Is anybody else getting newsletters from Microsoft and
return mail notices with virus attachments. This has been
going on for three days. Very annoying even though Norton
deletes the attachment. The only thing I have done
differently is post on this board with my email address
and sign up for Microsoft newsletter. How can I stop this?
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NEVER post to a public newsgroup with your real email
address. Those emails are not from Mocrosoft and they
never send attachments of any kind.
 
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NEVER post to a public newsgroup with your real email
address. Those emails are not from Mocrosoft and they
never send attachments of any kind.
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Change your email address? I'm sem-serious. It's a hell of lot of work
to filter those out. The best you can do is set up filters in Outlook
or whatever your email client is on both the standard subjects that
the messages use, and also the domains. Most or perhaps all of which
are phoney.

Ah, 3 days? I've been getting them for 3 months even though I stopped
using that address about that long ago.

As to not using your real address, don't use _any_ valid address
unless you have plenty of storage space as the yahoo one I used to use
fills up to 6 MB in less than 24 hours with those messages.

Peter Kaufman MCP
 
Greetings --

What you received is either a very common, malicious hoax or the
output of a computer infected by one of several widely publicized,
wide-spread, mass emailing worms. The most widely-known are:

W32.Swen.A_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Dumaru_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Gibe_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

Microsoft never has, does not currently, and very probably 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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Peter Kaufman said:
Ah, 3 days? I've been getting them for 3 months even though I stopped
using that address about that long ago.
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An address that I used for only two days in these groups -- a total of no
more than eight messages -- was initially receiving 100 or so of these
virus carring messages per day. Now it's down to less than 10, so the
flood seems to be subsiding.
 
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