Re: Take care, there a nasty out there

From: Eve Hoellwarth <hoellwarth-e_at_gmx.at>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:17:23 GMT
Message-ID: <j8ks6vg99odqtthi55pqufm1f3qecj5443@4ax.com>

Norman Dunbar <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> wrote

>I've just received my fifth email (today) entitled 'check out this new
>patch from microsoft' with an exe file attached. This one seems to have
>harvested this list for victims as all the names on the 'to' field are
>very familiar names from this list. Our virus scanner picked it up and
>binned the exe file attached.
>
>Just a warning, but I suspect that no-one on this list would be silly
>enough to believe that Microsoft sends patches from a Hotmail account -
>I certainly didn't, but someone out there has done :o(

Hopefully not.
I got this 'patch' today. It's another worm like these I received the last months nearly daily. Best thing against is a proper updated virus scanner.

Eve Received on Tue Mar 11 2003 - 15:17:23 CST