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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 malicious user to run executable on your computer.
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
- MS Outlook Express, version 4.01 and later
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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Michel Walsh - 19 Sep 2003 13:28 GMT
A genuine Microsoft message would refer to their site to download from their site whatever patch the actual "attachment" would be, they would NOT include the attachment, in a message, since this is against the ethic about the Internet use.
Vanderghast, Access MVP
Vitalijus J. Karalius - 19 Sep 2003 13:36 GMT
It's a worm -
W32.Swen.A@mm
I'm really impressed by how MS manages to allow stuff like this to be posted .
Security is job 0
<snip
Michel Walsh - 19 Sep 2003 20:47 GMT
Hi,
Once the message is in the system, it may take quite some time before all the news servers inter-connected between themselves, receive the "destroy" messageID = ... After all. some servers are always slower than other.
XXX and $$$ messages are filtered out, and well filtered, you have to admit it, but it takes some time to coordinate all these people when a new "pattern" arrives.
Note that if it was just me, there would be an option to not download at all ANY message having ANY attachment... :-)
Vanderghast, Access MVP
It's a worm -
W32.Swen.A@mm
I'm really impressed by how MS manages to allow stuff like this to be posted .
Security is job 0
<snip
Vitalijus J. Karalius - 19 Sep 2003 21:05 GMT
The sad part is, there are plenty of folks that find themselves at these
sites, understandably trusting, whose primary question might be on the level
of "which is better - Windows 95 or Windows 2000".
"Don't do something stupid" is not an appropriate justification for slipshod
security practices. This is simply adding to the damage this worm is doing
worldwide.
<End of complaint about the free service....>
Hi,
Once the message is in the system, it may take quite some time before
all the news servers inter-connected between themselves, receive the
"destroy" messageID = ... After all. some servers are always slower than
other.
XXX and $$$ messages are filtered out, and well filtered, you have to
admit it, but it takes some time to coordinate all these people when a new
"pattern" arrives.
Note that if it was just me, there would be an option to not download at
all ANY message having ANY attachment... :-)
Vanderghast, Access MVP
It's a worm -
W32.Swen.A@mm
I'm really impressed by how MS manages to allow stuff like this to be posted
.
Security is job 0
<snip
Guillem Serra - 19 Sep 2003 15:06 GMT
I have received a lot of messages similarly to this between yesterday and
today, at least 15. They all as been rejected by mcAfee as viruses of
various kinds. A few days ago I begin to "remove" the "Spam" I receive.
I believe this is a coincidence.
Have someone had similar experiences?.
Thanks
Guillem
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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
malicious user to run executable on your computer. 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
MS Outlook Express, version 4.01 and later
RecommendationCustomers should install the patch at the earliest
opportunity.
How to installRun attached file. Choose Yes on displayed dialog box.
How to useYou don't need to do anything after installing this item.
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on the Microsoft Technical Support web site. For security-related
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Tony Toews - 21 Sep 2003 18:39 GMT
>I have received a lot of messages similarly to this between yesterday and
>today, at least 15. They all as been rejected by mcAfee as viruses of
>various kinds.
I was getting a hundred or more per day on Thursday and Friday.
>A few days ago I begin to "remove" the "Spam" I receive.
>I believe this is a coincidence.
>Have someone had similar experiences?.
Coincedence. Your removing spam had nothing to do with the emergence
of this virus.
Tony
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