Stop emailing updates

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Peter

Can someone please help me?

I must have signed up for something recently and forgotten
about it, but for some reason Microsoft is emailing me all
of their updates as attachments. My Yahoo emailbox is
overflowing daily. I'm not sure how to get this to stop.
Does anyone know where I need to go to change this so I
don't get these anymore? Please? I'm getting a little
desperate here.
 
Microsoft does not email updates!!!!! These are viruses sent to you from
someone who has an infected computer and your name in the email address
book. Hopefully you have a good and uptodate virus scanner or as soon as you
open one of the email attachments your system will become infected. MS NEVER
SENDS UPDATES BY EMAIL, another source are returns from post offices, these
are also viruses. There is no real way to stop them until the infected
computer is cleaned up. But some protection can be had with a firewall and a
good mail screening progrm like mailwasher. Its free for download but you
need to check your computer for virsus first. Any of the major vendors have
scanners that will check for a virus but you then need to buy virus software
to clean it up.

Hope this helps, I was getting uptro a hundred an hour a couple of weeks
ago, there mostly gone but I still screen all email and anything I'm not
sure of I delete on my ISPs server using mailwaher (
http://www.mailwasher.net/index.php )
 
Are you absolutely sure?

There are several sender addresses, but all very similar.
I've already deleted the latest batch, but I had saved one
in my inbox in case I could use it to figure out who to
contact. The sender address is:

"MS Corporation Security Assistance"
<[email protected]>

And the recipient address is:

"Commercial User" <[email protected]>

It's a very convincing looking email. Here is some of the
text:

-------------------------------------------------

Microsoft User

this is the latest version of security update,
the "September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which
resolves all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS
Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express as
well as three new vulnerabilities. Install now to continue
keeping your computer secure from these vulnerabilities,
the most serious of which could allow an malicious user to
run code on your computer. This update includes the
functionality of all previously released patches.

System requirements Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP
This update applies to MS Internet Explorer, version
4.01 and later
MS Outlook, version 8.00 and later
MS Outlook Express, version 4.01 and later
Recommendation Customers should install the patch at the
earliest opportunity.
How to install Run attached file. Choose Yes on displayed
dialog box.
How to use You don't need to do anything after installing
this item.

Microsoft Product Support Services and Knowledge Base
articles can be found on the Microsoft Technical Support
web site. For security-related information about Microsoft
products, please visit the Microsoft Security Advisor web
site, or Contact Us.

Thank you for using Microsoft products.

Please do not reply to this message. It was sent from an
unmonitored e-mail address and we are unable to respond to
any replies.


The names of the actual companies and products mentioned
herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Us | Legal | TRUSTe
©2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms
of Use | Privacy Statement | Accessibility

--------------------------------------------------

The contact link goes to:
http://register.microsoft.com/contactus30/contactus.asp?
domain=generic

The legal link goes to:
http://www.microsoft.com/legal/

The TRUSTe link goes to:
https://www.truste.org/validate.php?invnum=605&fromcgi=1

This all seems very offical to me, not like some spammer
or anything.
 
Microsoft does not email updates. Period.



Are you absolutely sure?

There are several sender addresses, but all very similar.
I've already deleted the latest batch, but I had saved one
in my inbox in case I could use it to figure out who to
contact. The sender address is:

"MS Corporation Security Assistance"
<[email protected]>

And the recipient address is:

"Commercial User" <[email protected]>

It's a very convincing looking email. Here is some of the
text:

-------------------------------------------------

Microsoft User

this is the latest version of security update,
the "September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which
resolves all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS
Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express as
well as three new vulnerabilities. Install now to continue
keeping your computer secure from these vulnerabilities,
the most serious of which could allow an malicious user to
run code on your computer. This update includes the
functionality of all previously released patches.

System requirements Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP
This update applies to MS Internet Explorer, version
4.01 and later
MS Outlook, version 8.00 and later
MS Outlook Express, version 4.01 and later
Recommendation Customers should install the patch at the
earliest opportunity.
How to install Run attached file. Choose Yes on displayed
dialog box.
How to use You don't need to do anything after installing
this item.

Microsoft Product Support Services and Knowledge Base
articles can be found on the Microsoft Technical Support
web site. For security-related information about Microsoft
products, please visit the Microsoft Security Advisor web
site, or Contact Us.

Thank you for using Microsoft products.

Please do not reply to this message. It was sent from an
unmonitored e-mail address and we are unable to respond to
any replies.


The names of the actual companies and products mentioned
herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Us | Legal | TRUSTe
©2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms
of Use | Privacy Statement | Accessibility

--------------------------------------------------

The contact link goes to:
http://register.microsoft.com/contactus30/contactus.asp?
domain=generic

The legal link goes to:
http://www.microsoft.com/legal/

The TRUSTe link goes to:
https://www.truste.org/validate.php?invnum=605&fromcgi=1

This all seems very offical to me, not like some spammer
or anything.
 
Peter said:
Can someone please help me?

I must have signed up for something recently and forgotten
about it, but for some reason Microsoft is emailing me all
of their updates as attachments. My Yahoo emailbox is
overflowing daily. I'm not sure how to get this to stop.
Does anyone know where I need to go to change this so I
don't get these anymore? Please? I'm getting a little
desperate here.
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Hi

It's the work of the SWEN worm:

W32/Swen@mm
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100662.htm

W32.Swen.A@mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]
 
Thanks for the help.

To be clear, someone has this worm on his or her computer,
that person has my e-mail address, and because of that I
am receiving these e-mails?

-Peter
 
Thanks for the help.

To be clear, someone has this worm on his or her computer,
that person has my e-mail address, and because of that I
am receiving these e-mails?
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Not quite. SWEN or NEWS if your read it backwards take email addresses from
the Usenet. So by posting to the Usenet with a valid address you open
yourself up to this particular virus/worm.
 
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