What's this? "October 2003, Cumulative Patch"

I am getting 10 copies of this emailed to me a day.

Anyone know anything about this? Especially how to kill it.

Thanks,
Mac Lingo

I'm getting 1500-2000 a day so you are quite lucky. Most of this spam is
being sent by PC's infected with the latest Internet Worm. The worm is
sending out a) Fake Microsoft update notices and b) Fake "bounced email"
messages of the form "user unknown" or "undeliverable messages" or a 100
variations on this theme.

The best filter I've found to deal with this does the following..

It moves all new messages to a new folder called Spam UNLESS my email
address in in the recipient's address field OR UNLESS the sender is in my
contacts address book.

It sounds too simple but I've run it on nearly 3000 spam messages over the
past few days and it gets rid of most of it.

"Mac Lingo" wrote in message
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I am getting 10 copies of this emailed to me a day.

Anyone know anything about this? Especially how to kill it.

Thanks,
Mac Lingo

Greetings --

What you received is either a very common malicious hoax or the
output of a computer infected by one of several wide-spread, mass
emailing worms. The most widely-known a

W32.Swen.A_mm


W32.Dumaru_mm


W32.Gibe_mm


Microsoft never has, does not currently, and never will email
unsolicited security patches. At the most, if, and only if, you
subscribe to their security notification newsletter, they will send
you an email informing you that a new patch is available for
downloading.

Microsoft Policies on Software Distribution
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...icy/swdist.asp

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin Emails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...patch_hoax.asp

How to Tell If a Microsoft Security-Related Message Is Genuine
http://www.microsoft.com/security/an...icate_mail.asp

Any and all legitimate patches and updates are readily available
at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. (Notice that this is the true
URL, rather than the bogus one that may have been contained in the
email you received.) Any messages that point to any other source(s) or
claim to have the patch attached are bogus.

You're receiving these emails because your email address is in
the address book of someone infected with a worm, and/or because you
posted your real email address somewhere on-line, either in a forum
accessible to the public and spambots, such as Usenet, or on an
untrustworthy web site that subsequently sold your address as part of
a mailing list. One thing you can do is notify _everyone_ with whom
you've ever corresponded via email that one or more of them may be
infected with a mass emailing worm, and should take the appropriate
steps.

There's probably no way of blocking all of the bogus messages, but
you can greatly reduce the number you get by creating a rule, based
upon the most commonly used subject lines, to delete the emails from
the server without ever downloading them.


Bruce Chambers

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"Mac Lingo" wrote in message
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I am getting 10 copies of this emailed to me a day.

Anyone know anything about this? Especially how to kill it.

Thanks,
Mac Lingo