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[Security-fyi] Fake Microsoft mail re: Patch for IE, do not use

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Mahoney)
Tue Aug 19 10:06:16 2003

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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:59:50 -0400
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From: Bob Mahoney <bobmah@MIT.EDU>
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We've started to see mail of the sort attached.  It is bogus and should be deleted if you receive anything similar.  Microsoft does not communicate legitimate information in this fashion.  (Don't run the attached "patch.exe")

-Bob


At 8:22 AM -0400 8/19/03, Microsoft wrote:
>X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2
>Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:22:34 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "Microsoft" <security@microsoft.com>
>To: <bobmah@mit.edu>
>Subject: Use this patch immediately !
>X-Spam-Score: 4.2
>X-Spam-Level: **** (4.2)
>X-Spam-Flag: NO
>X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang)
>
>Content-Type: text/plain;
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now!
>There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
>More than 500.000 already infected!
>
>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:patch.exe (bina/mdos) (00153579)
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