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Security Software Updates 07 Nov 2003 »
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njbrad

join:2002-04-20
Trenton, NJ
 New MS Hoax e-mail virus

I just received 2 hoax e-mails from Microsoft.

They claim to contain the "November 2003, Cumulative Patch"

It has an attachment Pack568.exe which was removed by anti-virus scanners at my ISP.


Hutch
My Throne is the Dunny
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join:2000-10-14
Out House
Thanks for the heads up njbrad See Profile.

kpatz
MY HEAD A SPLODE
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join:2003-06-13
Manchester, NH
It's the Swen worm.
Symantec write-up

Daemon
Premium
join:2003-06-29
San Francisco, CA
·Comcast

reply to njbrad
this is just swen again

swen is smart enough to ask the system what month it is before creating it's emails. Expect to get December 2003 Culumative patch emails too.
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-Ryan
There are 0F types of people in the world: those that can count in hex, and those that can't.


BurntCricket
Gotta Do What Ya Gotta Do
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Here
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·RoadRunner Cable

reply to njbrad
At work we received an E-Mail this week warning of this.

MS DOES NOT send upgrades, if you have signed up for the upgrade emails, they tell you to go to the MS site and download new patches/upgrades.
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dp
Go Steelers
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join:2000-12-08
Greensburg, PA
·Verizon Online DSL

reply to njbrad
said by njbrad See Profile:
I just received 2 hoax e-mails from Microsoft.

They claim to contain the "November 2003, Cumulative Patch"

It has an attachment Pack568.exe which was removed by anti-virus scanners at my ISP.

Doesn't seem to be an end to it, unfortunately.
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