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 Post subject: Warning !
PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:14 pm 
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Today I started getting e-mail about a new security patch from Microsoft. The mail looks like its from Microsoft, but it isn't. This is most likely a virus of some kind.

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Microsoft NEVER e-mails out security patches to anyone.

"Be very very afraid" LOL :lol:

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 Post subject: True!
PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 4:05 pm 
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Nice of you to post this. This is true. Microsoft will never send a patch through email.

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Yeah I'v had these b4, the first thing that gives it away thats it not M$ is that the patch covers all OS which M$ havnt the brain pwoer to do.

But yeah it is a virus. hotmail told me so.

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Sounds like Blaster...
You know, I hope that the kid who built that thing gets sued for the damages it caused...


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no it isnt blaster,
blaster virus does travel via email, it travels by the holes in M$ computers, and floods the M$ update site, nothing more, so as for damages none i can think of.
but time is money.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 3:33 pm 
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It's the Swen virus.

And Microsoft does have a policy that says it doesn't e-mail patches. Here's the link:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treevi ... swdist.asp


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