E-mail Purports to be patch from microsoft

[B52GUNR]

Greetings fellow crunchers, folders, etc:

On BBR it was mentioned there's an e-mail going around that looks exactly like a Microsoft patch. And it's a very convincing job.

Just a friendly reminder that Microsoft does not send out patches via e-mail, only get M$ patches from their website.

Here's the thread at BBR (and no, we won't bite you):

BBR Post

 

[conjur]

Someone's mentioned it on OT and I think the sticky thread might be about it?

Sends out a .EXE attachment, which anyone with 1/2 a brain *should* realize is most likely a virus as MSFT would NEVER send a .EXE in emails to people.

But...ya never know!

 

[B52GUNR]

Originally posted by: conjur
Someone's mentioned it on OT and I think the sticky thread might be about it?

Sends out a .EXE attachment, which anyone with 1/2 a brain *should* realize is most likely a virus as MSFT would NEVER send a .EXE in emails to people.

But...ya never know!

That's cool, I didn't check to see if it was posted elsewhere, I only spy in this forum . Figured it's best to overcommunicate this than to assume everyone should know better .

 

[PeterN]

Thx for the warning though.
As you said, overcommunicating about these kind of mails won't harm anybody.

BTW, I didn't see the topic in OT, because I never wander off so much of my 'family-forum'.

 

[RaySun2Be]

B52GUNR,
We appreciate the heads up, it's already a topic of discussion here though:

MS Mail Thread


(personally, even if this is a repost, in this case, the more times people see it, the better the chances they won't get infected )

 

[aberant]

yeah, that ah heck has knocked over every server owned by one of the biggest telco's after BT in the UK, their whole email system was down Lady i bought a fan off sent it to me, that's how i got tipped off

 

[Smoke]

Hey B52GUNR, thanks for the heads up.

Too bad you're on the wrong team.

We could use more "good guys" like yourself.