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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Phony e-mail from Microsoft?
  • Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 09:05:10 -0700

Thanks for the confirmation.

I suspect the Dumaru thing is why I have also received e-mails from myself to invest in certain securities.

Sure makes me nostalgic for the Mac.


At 08:17 AM 4/4/2005 -0600, you wrote:
Don't open them! Microsoft doesn't distribute patches this way. It is a worm or trojan horse.

From http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.dumaru AT mm.html


W32.Dumaru@mm is a mass-mailing worm that drops an IRC Trojan onto an infected machine. The worm gathers email addresses from certain file types and uses its own SMTP engine to email itself.

-Steve

Gene GeRue wrote:

I am getting multiple and continuing posts ostensibly from "Microsoft" <security AT microsoft.com> that say: Use this patch immediately!

Seems to be real except for all the exclamation points. Seems to me a likely nasty. What do you think?


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