Ms Patch Virus

[Chappy]

Fake Microsoft Patch Triggers Virus Attack - 05/23/2005 

Like day follows night, a bogus "cumulative update" with a malicious attachment has followed Microsoft's patch day. In what has become a monthly staple, virus writers are taking advantage of the heightened public interest around Microsoft's patching cycle to trick users into executing a malicious attachment. The latest social engineering trick arrives via e-mail with an attachment that purports to be a "cumulative patch" for May 2005.

The claim is that the executable file contains patches for vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, three widely used products with a history of serious security bugs. The file is actually an executable for a variant of W32.Pinfi, a memory-resident polymorphic virus capable of replicated via mapped drives and network shares.

As usual, a reminder to all...

Microsoft does not send executables thru email for patches

Anything that comes via email that is actually from MS will only contain links and you still have to be subscribed to the MS Alerts to even get this!!

[martymas]

thanks chappy

they never give up do they.

i got one when i had win 98 .

going into a bogus majorgeeks .

through the google search engine.

so ive been there.

marty

[blim]

Thanks, Chappy!!

I read your post to my son who replied, "MOM, I know better than to respond to an email from Microsoft concerning updates!!" Phew........what a relief that he said that--sometimes Soccerplayers can be kinda clueless, too many shots to the head I guess

Thanks again,

Liz