M$ vulnerability question

[technomage]

dump it!
thats a scam being used by some unscrupulous folks to gain control of your M$ 
box. I have one of those here and I ran a virus scanner across the attached 
e-mail. what I got back told me that this did not originate with microsoft.

when it doubt, chuck it in the trash and shred it!

Technomage

On Wednesday 13 March 2002 03:25 pm, you wrote:
> I'm not trying to start another flame war, so please do not start...
>
> I was seriously wondering if everyone else is getting the following
> message including the attachment.  I've got 4 seperate copies in my
> inbox, and got to thinking that I wonder if the attachment might
> actually be a virus.  It would be trivial for someone to attach a virus
> and spoof the header and use that to ship/install a trojan/worm/virus.
>
> As I NEVER run any attachments except those from REALLY trusted
> individuals, I thought I would ask what you all know of this one.  Do
> you really think this is lagit?
>
>   EBo --
>
> > Microsoft Customer,
> >
> >      this is the latest version of security update, the
> > known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer and
> > MS Outlook/Express as well as six new vulnerabilities, and is
> > discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-005. Install now to
> > protect your computer from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of
> > which could allow an attacker to run code on your computer.
> >
> >
> > Description of several well-know vulnerabilities:
> >
> > ...
>
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