>It looks damn legit. If I was not normally paranoid, and a bit >surprised Microsoft would send me a patch, then I could have thought it >legit. Remember, I am *supposed* to be one of the clueful ones :) I >imagine a lot of users will click on this. It seemed to escape the mail >filter, but not the local file scanner. A slight lag in virus >updates...... I got it this morning. It looked good. But whoever sent it hadn't bothered to spoof the return address to something from microsoft.com. And the attached file had a tiny little name - not like the long ones MS usually uses. I left it in the inbox on my ISP's server just for fun. When I POPed the message speakeasy recognized the payload as a virus. Good for speakeasy. >It is a virus. Microsoft *never* emails updates. The patch name was >update93.exe. I am not sure if that is consistent. The one that showed up in my mailbox was something like qxeydl.exe
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