Re: "Microsoft" virus spam - ALERT
From: Jym (_at_home)
Date: 03/16/04
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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:05:22 -0800
I'm sure that they are. A lot of these e-mails are repeated through unknowing innocent computers that are infected with a virus that can use their contacts as the recipients. These virus authors are very knowledgeable and are hard to apprehend. Jym
"Peter" <peter144@nyc.rr.com.spam (hold the .spam)> wrote in message news:%23oPjJ53CEHA.3836@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
My Yahoo bulk mailbox now receives as many as 6 emails a day with a phony "Microsoft" return address (microsoft.news or news.msn.net or whatever) and with a heading about an update or security patch. Each email is an authentic printout from the Microsoft web site, and each contains an attachment that Yahoo's virus scan shows as, for example, "virus w2Swen.a.mm.
I honestly have no idea why anyone would take the time or energy to create and send out this stuff and I understand that Microsoft is not responsible.
Still, because it looks so authentic even though Microsoft has stated that they never send out attachments, perhaps they could make a sustained effort to find the source or sources or this spam and shut them down for good.
p
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