What's the deal with the e-mails from "Microsoft"?

[Riprorin]

I've been getting bombarded lately. Anyone else?

 

It's a virus.

 

[her209]

Swen MM virus

 

[Riprorin]

Yup, just wondering why I'm suddenly I'm getting 10 e-mails a day.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: jumpr
It's a virus.

yep

 

[yruffostsif]

Open and execute every single one of them!

 

[Kaervak]

In the past four days at my yahoo account, I've received probably 14 megs worth of the virus. I average 30 spams a day, and pretty much half are the virus now. it gets old quick.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

We got several each day the last 2 weeks at work I believe.

 

[civad]

This is what I recd today in my Yahoo! mail account:

rom: "Microsoft" <jlgemnhhdrwpbgm@news.msdn.net> | This is not spam | Add to Address Book
To: "Partner" <kopwlz-viljpmdzvu@news.msdn.net>
Subject:
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:10:34 -0400


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Microsoft Partner

this is the latest version of security update, the "September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which resolves all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express as well as three newly discovered vulnerabilities. Install now to continue keeping your computer secure from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow an malicious user to run executable on your system. This update includes the functionality of all previously released patches.


System requirements Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP
This update applies to MS Internet Explorer, version 4.01 and later
MS Outlook, version 8.00 and later
MS Outlook Express, version 4.01 and later
Recommendation Customers should install the patch at the earliest opportunity.
How to install Run attached file. Choose Yes on displayed dialog box.
How to use You don't need to do anything after installing this item.

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I have disabled html in my mail account, but I believe the page layout is similar to that on M$ website.

The email also came with an attachment - NSTALLATION448.exe

which, when scanned by Norton AV (Yahoo's service) , showed "Scan result: Virus W32.Swen.A@mm found. File not cleaned."

Nice, isnt it?

 

[Hubris]

Yeah, it's a virus and a nasty one. I dealth with a guy at work who was infected with it, and he couldn't run any exe files, which makes fixing it kinda hard. We tried renaming to .bat and .cmd, but we got nothing. Basically had to tell him he needed to reinstall Windows on two computers (he wanted protection on both, o' course). Ah, the joys of tech support.