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[James P. Kinney III]

The file that Chris got was a bug.

Virus scanning report  -  21. March 2003   14:10

F-PROT 3.12d
SIGN.DEF created 21. March 2003
SIGN2.DEF created 20. March 2003
MACRO.DEF created 17. March 2003

Search: update93.exe
Action: Report only
Files: Attempt to identify files
Switches: /REPORT=report.txt

/tmp/test/update93.exe  Infection: W32/Gibe.B at mm


On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:16, Grady Harris wrote:
> On an NT machine at work last week, Internet Explorer opened to the Windows 
> update page--I let it do its thing, & afterwards found the Phoenix 0.5 
> directory empty. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc?
> 
> Chris Fowler wrote:
> I got the following text and a executable called update93.exe attached.
> Is it viral.
> 
> Microsoft Corporation Customer
> 
> this is the latest version of security update, the
> "March 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which eliminates
> all known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer...
> 
> Grady Harris
> Emory University Hospital Branch Library
> 404-727-3090 
> 
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GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics) <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7 

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