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Latest Worm/Virus doing the rounds
Sat Sep 20 2003

I had one this morning.... It looks like its from Microsoft, it has copyright Microsoft all over it. It arrived in my email with an attachment.

It is NOT from Microsoft. Microsoft do not send patches by email and are highly unlikely to ever do so. Please do NOT open or run the attachment.

If you want patches for Microsoft products (and we highly recommend you DO patch regularly to keep yourselves up to date) its extremely quick, and extremely easy to do. Please visit windowsupdate.microsoft.com it is free, it is very easy and it will help prevent your PC catching any nasty illneses from these worms that arrive in your Inbox! Not to mention it keeps everything else up to date like Media Player, DirectX etc etc.

Go update, and DONT open any attachments that claim to have come from Microsoft. They didn't send it.

6 Comments
  • From:
    Kaycee (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Sep 20 2003
    I got this one last night too! Luckily, I was suspicious immediately and didn't open it.

    Thanks for updating everyone!
  • From:
    Cutypops (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Sep 20 2003
    I haven't had that one, but will follow your link, thanks.
  • From:
    Hellcat (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Sep 23 2003
    I had that one come through my email too, good thing I didn't open it!
  • From:
    AnneOakley (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Sep 25 2003
    I got 3 in my yahoo mail and good thing, I didn't open it. Phewww!

    AO
  • From:
    (Unauthenticated) (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Sep 25 2003
    thanks for the tip =)
  • From:
    Synergistic (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Oct 07 2003
    I make it a point to *never* open any attachments that dont contain any pr0n. . .

    . . .bleh, as per usual, update your windows, dl an av program and a fw, too.

    happy computing