[ale] OT: Mesg from M$

Christopher Bergeron christopher at bergeron.com
Fri Mar 21 19:43:35 EST 2003


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I tend to think that any email sent from microsoft.com to the general 
public, would at least have gooder grammer then that.

:)

- -CB



James P. Kinney III wrote:

|I would put money on it being viral. M$ as a general rule does NOT send
|email notices with a patch, fix, bug repair or anything.
|
|If you would like, send it to me as an attachment in a zip file (.zip or
|.gz) and I'll run it through the F-prot checker.
|
|On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 13:40, Chris Fowler wrote:
|
|>I got the following text and a executable called update93.exe attached.
|>Is it viral.
|>
|>
|>Microsoft Corporation Customer
|>
|>this is the latest version of security update, the
|>"March 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which eliminates
|>all known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer,
|>Outlook and Outlook Express as well as five newly
|>discovered vulnerabilities. Install now to protect your computer
|>from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow
|>an attacker to run executable on your system. This update includes
|>the functionality of all previously released patches.
|>
|>
|>
|>
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|>Ale at ale.org
|>http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale


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