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If you get a message from MS that looks genuine and official and that claims to be a cumlative patch for Internet Explorer, please delete it immediately. It is a bugus virus that has gone berzerk. Because it looks official people are clicking on it like crazy and it is emailing itself out all over the place. I have had 16 copies of it sent to me in the last hour. MS DOES NOT SEND SECURITY FIXES OR EXECUTABLE FILES IN EMAILS. IF YOU WANT THE LATEST SECURITY FIXES YOU MUST GET THEM FROM A MICROSOFT OFFICIAL UPDATE SITE.

This thing is going to cause a storm.

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this is the latest version of security update, the "September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which fixes all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express as well as three newly discovered vulnerabilities. Install now to protect your computer from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to run code on your system. This update includes the functionality of all previously released patches.?

System requirements? Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP

This update applies to? MS Internet Explorer, version 4.01 and later

MS Outlook, version 8.00 and later

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Recommendation Customers should install the patch at the earliest opportunity.

How to install Run attached file. Choose Yes on displayed dialog box.

How to use You don't need to do anything after installing this item.

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There is another bogus variant That reads something like this:

I'm sorry the message returned below could not be delivered to the following addresses:

Undelivered message to ljsimtrb@netmail.com

Message follows:

The email address is simply spoofed. It is basically meaningless. The email adress you see may be somewhat different.

Q

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If you get a message from MS that looks genuine and official and that claims to be a cumlative patch for Internet Explorer, please delete it immediately. It is a bugus virus that has gone bizerk. Because it looks official people are clicking on it like crazy and it is emailing itself out all over the place. I have had 16 copies of it sent to me in the last hour. MS DOES NOT SEND SECURITY FIXES OR EXECUTABLE FILES IN EMAILS. IF YOU WANT THE LATEST SECURITY FIXES YOU MUST GET THEM FROM A MICROSOFT OFFICIAL UPDATE SITE.

This thing is going to cause a storm.

already posted in the BPN

next time check before you post (read: search button)

and that's not the right forum anywayz

one more thing: "bizerk" - you prolly mean berzerk?? :laugh:

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Aready posted the what, on what? What are you Neowin staff? Dude I'm trying to be helpful, this is a Windows XP forum, I got the virus sent to me on a Windows XP machine. Peeps ought to know about it. If I don't know what your talking about with BPN how do you expect others to?

Besides describe a search term for me. First search term 'virus', produces 1000's of results. Second search term 'virus pretends to be message from MS', this churns up 1000's of results too, discussing everthing from the existance of god to the best motorbike engines. Do you want to read them all to find a refernce to what I said?

I know fine well how to use the search button in Neowin. I should do, I've been here longer than you. So please don't patronise me for trying to be helpful to others.

Regards,

Q

PS

In any case this looks like a bad one, I have never seen anything like it, I have been hit with 200 emails in the last 4 hours, all the same virus. I of course haven't clicked on it, but it looks like an awful lot of people are.

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ok,

i got 16 or 17 of them

but say you were getting them on a windows me machine

would you still post it on the windows xp forum???

or would you post it in the windows me forum, "because you were running win me and got infected"

if you've been here longer than me and dont know what Back Page News (BPN) is, then excuse me .....

people coming to neowin to read about news like that will try the BPN or software discussion & assitance as the 1st two places - that's what i would do

and fact is that it's already posted in the BPN, and fact is that I saw that post before i saw yours

another fact: you posted your post at 17:26 (my time), and the post in the BPN was made at 14:23 (my time) - a 3 hours difference

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Bah... you?re splitting hairs mate... I have never visited the back page news section in all the time I have visited Neowin. Call me lazy, if you want, but I read the front page and maybe a few forum posts and that's it. I simply don't have time for anything else.

I don't care who posted it first. What do you think we are in some sort of competition? No one was asking or looking for assistance. This was purely an informational in a relevant section of the Neowin forum. If someone else wants to post something similar for ME and 98 I will leave that up to them, I don't use them so it isn't very relevant to me.

More than anything this was just me having a whinge about those damn freaking pain in the a*se virus writers, and noting that this release seems more aggressive than past releases. It wasn't particularly directed at anyone. But the next time I feel the urge to have a moan about things that annoy me, I don't think I will be asking you for permission first.

But thanks for the input anyway.

Q

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I seem to be getting about 15 emails an hour regarding a cumulative patch.

Each email has the same text and looks like it's coming from MS, but the attached file is different.

I'm also receiving emails from address that are bouncing.

What's going on?

I diden't sign up for this and there doesn't seem to be a way of un-subscribeing.

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Use your common, dude! MS would not send emails like that. Think about it this way:

If MS want to distribute a patch, they will host it, so changes can be made ASAP. Not include it in an email.

I pretty much ignore all emails alerting me to a virus. Find a source you trust and stick with it.

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