TECH: Email from MS?

Subject: BS: Email from MS?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 31 May 02 - 08:17 PM

Just received a message "from" "[e-mail]". It contains 3 attachments and the message says "This is a very good tool. I wish you would enjoy it"

Here are the headers.

Return-path: <[e-mail]>
Delivery-date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 01:02:57 +0100
Received: from [200.168.230.8] (helo=pop.brasilsite.com.br)
by buckaroo.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #3)
id 17DwM3-00025L-00
for [e-mail]; Sat, 01 Jun 2002 01:02:47 +0100
Received: from Lrnqpm [202.22.173.244] by pop.brasilsite.com.br
(SMTPD32-6.06) id AF14C27C018E; Fri, 31 May 2002 21:02:28 -0300
From: inet <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: A very good tool
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=LP56ysBi9BAm4g Message-Id: <200205312102252.SM00279@
...

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 May 02 - 08:30 PM

I wouldn't trust that. I imagine you are posting it here because you don't either.

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 31 May 02 - 08:36 PM

I'm still trying to research McGrath. I posted here first as I have yet to find an answer and certainly do not trust it. Perhaps I'm scaremongoring here in which case I apologies. The most likely bit I have found is that it maybe Klez2.

Bottom line as awlays is don't open attachments you don't understand... Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: khandu
Date: 31 May 02 - 08:52 PM

I am releived. I thought someone was complaining about an email from Mississippi!

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: Mountain Dog
Date: 31 May 02 - 09:06 PM

Hi, Jon

Best advice is don't open any of the attachments. Instead, run each of them through your virus checker and I'd be willing to be you come up with alarms blazing on one or all of them.

MS doesn't send out unsolicited e-mails and the clunky grammar is another clue that it's probably virus-laden junk.

As a matter of course, anytime I receive an email attachment promising "something you'll enjoy" from someone I don't know, I run it over once or twice with the ol' cyber-steamroller and send it sailing over the backyard fence.

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: Amergin
Date: 31 May 02 - 09:21 PM

i agree...run....fast...

there is a bug going around that poses as all sorts of fairly innocent things...including email bounce back notices....

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: Giac
Date: 31 May 02 - 09:48 PM

Thanks, Nathan, for the "email bounce back" warning. While I routinely trash everything except personal email from folks I know, I do usually check the bouncebacks.

Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: Gareth
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 04:41 AM

B*****r, I've just opened a "bounceback" alledging that The McGrath is unobtainable.

Virus checker to run - fast.

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: Escamillo
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 05:06 AM

"anytime I receive an email attachment promising "something you'll enjoy" from someone I don't know.."

That's ok, but add this: "OR EVEN FROM MY MOTHER".

There are lots of viruses and worms and spies circulating around, which are sent by infected PCs without consent from the sender. A good trick to avoid becoming an unintentional distributor: enter !!!000 as an address in your list. If an undetected worm in your PC tries to send itself to your list, it will be stopped by Outlook Express rendering an error of "invalid e-mail address" and you will notice it. If you want to send a massive distribution to your list (hardly necessary), delete that address first.

Thanks for the tip on bounced mail: surely it is yet another trick to call your attention to the message.

Un abrazo - Andrés

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 05:16 AM

In the "Technical Worm Alert" thread, GUEST Pavane writes: "... note that there does appear to be a fake virus warning email circulating which purports to come from MICROSOFT. The supposed patch itself contains a virus so DO NOT INSTALL IT. MICROSOFT does not issue patches by unsolicited email."

I'd dump it and head for the hills -

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: Mac Tattie
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 06:15 AM

I have recieved some e-mails fron "Microsoft" but my Norton anit-virus ALWAYS gives warning of "virus like activity". Better to delete any "ify" e-mails than have a quick peek. cheers

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: GUEST,andi
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 07:00 AM

Not only does Mirosoft not send unsolicited emails, but you have to sign up for and give express consent to get emails from Microsoft. I would be extreemly warry of this. if you do not have a virus scan there is a free one on line by grissoft that is very good. Download it and use it please. I see the effets of not using a virus scan everyday please do not fall vitim. andi

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 07:29 AM

Thanks for the info, I had no intention of opening it but I was curious to know about it.

In any case, the only email program I'm using is kmail, a text only program on a linux box and I'd have to think hard before going to the trouble of opening any legitamate attachments that require Windows, be bothered with emails that contain HTML, etc.

As for viruses and worms, I suspect I've been sent another one this morning. It arrived with the subject heading "hello jonbanjo, some questions" from someone in a newsgroup I've recently had some email correspondence with. Again it contained strange attachments. I've just sent him an email informing him.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 08:23 AM

Yeah, I was going to check about that, Gareth - I was deleting all the things that looked like spam, using Mailwasher, which is handy and free), and I think I deleted and bounced something from you accidentally. (Send it again and I'll be more careful.)

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: Gareth
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 08:44 AM

Arrrgh ! D**n you Kevin, I've just spent over an hour updating and running Virus checkers, and generally cleaning, erasing, and disinfecting this machine !!!!!

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Email from MS?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 12:14 PM

Seems to me that everybody who uses the Internet should be using virus checkers, and they should be updated twice a month, at least. I've been receiving the klez worm in Spam messages a lot lately, maybe once or twice a day. I'm sure glad Norton intercepts them.
Even then, it's good to be very careful about opening attachments.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: TECH: Email from MS?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 04:12 PM

Oh well, I've finally got round to scanning the attachments in Windows (something which on reflection, I should have done before). Even though the emails have different subjects, bodies and the attachments have different names, PC-Cillin detects them both as worm.klez.G

Jon