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Welcome to the Viruswarning forums. All your original content has been ported to the new forums as well as new content and additional opportunities to interact with the authors of Viruswarn.com. You can always access old content at www.leedrake.com/forum . You may find some formatting was lost in the conversion and the older versions of the posts to be more readable....
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| 09/01/2003 11:57 PM |
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| What Is It?
Two days ago, I received an inquiry from a list subscriber about a message, ostensibly from Microsoft, bearing an attachment, which the alert subscriber promptly discarded. Yesterday, I received one of them myself. Today, in the course of updating the virus definitions on my NetWare server, I came across an article about the attachment on the Network Associates Web site and decided that W32/Dumaru.a@MM deserved a short reminder to the list.
What Should I Do?
The message looks like this.
From: Microsoft
Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now!
There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
More than 500.000 already infected!
The message is not from Microsoft, and the attachment is actually a Trojan Horse program that steals passwords and corrupts files on NTFS partitions. As a matter of long standing policy, set forth at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp, Microsoft never, ever distributes patches by email, period. Even if they wanted to do so, it would be an extremely irresponsible use of everyone's bandwidth, and no amount of spin would be able to remove the blemish from their public image.
Assume that any message that you receive that appears to be from Microsoft and claims that the attachment is a patch is in fact a virus, Trojan Horse program, or other Bad Thing that you should discard immediately.
Reference
Microsoft policy on software distribution is at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp .
Network Associates' article about the Trojan Horse is at http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100560.htm.
Symantec article about the Trojan is at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.dumaru@ mm.html
This concludes this VirusWarn message.
David Gray
P6 Consulting
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