E-MAIL WORM WARNING

[Whippy]

I found a thing perporting to come from MS in my Hotmail.

It specifies a file that needs to be dowloaded from MS.
There is an attatched file "Patch226.exe"

I'm right that MS don't do this?

AntiVirus intercepted the file and denied download (not
that I would have) The file is a worm "W32/Gibe.gen@MM"

Just thought you might like to know

Whippy

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

"Whippy" > wrote in message
...
> I found a thing perporting to come from MS in my Hotmail.
>
> It specifies a file that needs to be dowloaded from MS.
> There is an attatched file "Patch226.exe"
>
> I'm right that MS don't do this?
>

You are correct.

We do not send Patches or Security updates via e-mail attachments
see
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp
and
http://microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp

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Mike
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"Whippy" > wrote in message
...
> I found a thing perporting to come from MS in my Hotmail.
>
> It specifies a file that needs to be dowloaded from MS.
> There is an attatched file "Patch226.exe"
>
> I'm right that MS don't do this?
>
> AntiVirus intercepted the file and denied download (not
> that I would have) The file is a worm "W32/Gibe.gen@MM"
>
> Just thought you might like to know
>
> Whippy