[AccessD] Viruses from "Microsoft"

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:06:52AM -0700, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> Just a heads up:
> 
> My anti-virus software caught two messages bearing "gifts" today, allegedly
> from Microsoft. One of the messages looks exactly like the MS security page
> but if you look carefully at the sender info, you can see that it's not
> really from Microsoft.
> 
> The message subjects are "Last Security Bulletin" and "Newest Security
> Bulletin".

I've gotten 40 of these since Thursday morning. The subject headers all 
contain the word "patch", "upgrade", or "pack". I imagine everyone on 
the list is aware that MS doesn't e-mail security patches. Supposedly, 
this can launch itself on an unpatched system if you preview it.

Bob Hall