[ale] Microsoft spam??? = virus

[Christopher]

I just learned today that this is a new virus that's propagating.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven A. DuChene [mailto:linux-clusters at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 6:30 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Microsoft spam???
> 
> I have received twice now a message titled:
> 
> Internet Security Update
> 
> from
> 
> "Microsoft Corporation Security Center" <rdquest12 at microsoft.com>
> 
> Each time it is addressed to
> 
> "Microsoft Customer" <'customer at yourdomain.com'>
> 
> each time I look at the received headers to see where it is coming
from
> and see lots of strange places it has been. None of them are
Microsoft.
> I have the spaminator from mindspring/earthlink turned on for my
account
> but even though this meets all my criteria as spam (something I don't
> want and it isn't addressed to me) earthlink's spaminator misses it
each
> time. Does anyone know anything about tuning the spaminator to catch
this
> sort of thing?
> 
> BTW, each time it included an attached file q216309.exe
> 
> Since I don't have any MS operating systems installed here I can't be
> foolish
> enough to open this up where it will tell me anything. Anyone here of
this
> before? Is this an exercise in sovial engineering to get people to
apply
> some
> "patch" that will do something malisious to their systems?
> --
> Steven A. DuChene      linux-clusters at mindspring.com
>                       sduchene at mindspring.com
> 
>         http://www.mindspring.com/~sduchene/
> 
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