Security Emails

Some how I have gotten on a Microsoft Mailing list about
security updates. How do I get off this list?

--

Microsoft Customer

this is the latest version of security update, the
"September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which eliminates
all known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet
Explorer,
Outlook and Outlook Express as well as five newly
discovered vulnerabilities. Install now to protect your
computer
from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which
could allow
an attacker to run executable on your system. This update
includes
the functionality of all previously released patches.

System requirements Win 9x/Me/2000/NT/XP
This update applies to Microsoft Internet Explorer,
version 4.01 and later
Microsoft Outlook, version 8.00 and later
Microsoft Outlook Express, version 4.01 and later
Recommendation Customers should install the patch at the
earliest opportunity.
How to install Run attached file. Click Yes on displayed
dialog box.
How to use You don't need to do anything after installing
this item.

Microsoft Product Support Services and Knowledge Base
articles
can be found on the Microsoft Technical Support web site.
For security-related information about Microsoft products,
please
visit the Microsoft Security Advisor web site, or Contact
us.

Please do not reply to this message. It was sent from an
unmonitored
e-mail address and we are unable to respond to any
replies.

Thank you for using Microsoft products.

With friendly greetings,
Microsoft Network Customer Support

Vanguard
Thu Sep 18 15:46:36 CDT 2003

In the message you included, "... How to install Run attached file. ..."

Aw, c'mon, you haven't heard about viruses or a-holes spoofing
themselves as Microsoft. If you're getting e-mails with attachments
claiming they are patches, they are NOT from Microsoft. You think
Microsoft really cares about one lone person to ensure their system is
patched up to date? If anything, such bogus e-mails should spur you to
simply wander over to Microsoft's Windows Update site and check if there
really are any updates.

Of course, since you didn't bother to list the headers for this e-mail,
no one can help you determine the source of this bogus e-mail. If you
are that gullible to believe such e-mails are from Microsoft, it sounds
like you really need to get some anti-spam software. I use SpamPal
along with its Bayesian, HTML-Modify, and Quarantine plug-ins. They're
all free. There are lots of other solutions, too. Anti-virus software
is also a must for you and, for you, make sure to enable its e-mail
scanning features so you can detect when e-mails arrive with, ahem,
"patches".

--
____________________________________________________________
** Share with others. Post replies in the newsgroup.
** If present, remove all "-nix" from my email address.
____________________________________________________________


"Mark Fox" <markfox@sc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:06a801c37e24$89577b00$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Some how I have gotten on a Microsoft Mailing list about
> security updates. How do I get off this list?
>
> --
>
> Microsoft Customer
>
> this is the latest version of security update, the
> "September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which eliminates
> all known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet
> Explorer,
> Outlook and Outlook Express as well as five newly
> discovered vulnerabilities. Install now to protect your
> computer
> from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which
> could allow
> an attacker to run executable on your system. This update
> includes
> the functionality of all previously released patches.
>
> System requirements Win 9x/Me/2000/NT/XP
> This update applies to Microsoft Internet Explorer,
> version 4.01 and later
> Microsoft Outlook, version 8.00 and later
> Microsoft Outlook Express, version 4.01 and later
> Recommendation Customers should install the patch at the
> earliest opportunity.
> How to install Run attached file. Click Yes on displayed
> dialog box.
> How to use You don't need to do anything after installing
> this item.
>
> Microsoft Product Support Services and Knowledge Base
> articles
> can be found on the Microsoft Technical Support web site.
> For security-related information about Microsoft products,
> please
> visit the Microsoft Security Advisor web site, or Contact
> us.
>
> Please do not reply to this message. It was sent from an
> unmonitored
> e-mail address and we are unable to respond to any
> replies.
>
> Thank you for using Microsoft products.
>
> With friendly greetings,
> Microsoft Network Customer Support
>

Jupiter
Thu Sep 18 15:52:38 CDT 2003

Mark;
The attachment is most likely a virus.
Delete the Email and attachment immediately.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp

Microsoft sends security updates but NEVER with attachments.

On the rare occasion Microsoft sends a file, you would be expecting it
in advance and know exactly what it is.

Install an antivirus application.
Update your antivirus weekly.
Run it weekly.
Install or enable a firewall:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283673

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://dts-l.org/index.html


"Mark Fox" <markfox@sc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:06a801c37e24$89577b00$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Some how I have gotten on a Microsoft Mailing list about
> security updates. How do I get off this list?
>
> --
>
> Microsoft Customer
>
> this is the latest version of security update, the
> "September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which eliminates
> all known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet
> Explorer,
> Outlook and Outlook Express as well as five newly
> discovered vulnerabilities. Install now to protect your
> computer
> from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which
> could allow
> an attacker to run executable on your system. This update
> includes
> the functionality of all previously released patches.
>
> System requirements Win 9x/Me/2000/NT/XP
> This update applies to Microsoft Internet Explorer,
> version 4.01 and later
> Microsoft Outlook, version 8.00 and later
> Microsoft Outlook Express, version 4.01 and later
> Recommendation Customers should install the patch at the
> earliest opportunity.
> How to install Run attached file. Click Yes on displayed
> dialog box.
> How to use You don't need to do anything after installing
> this item.
>
> Microsoft Product Support Services and Knowledge Base
> articles
> can be found on the Microsoft Technical Support web site.
> For security-related information about Microsoft products,
> please
> visit the Microsoft Security Advisor web site, or Contact
> us.
>
> Please do not reply to this message. It was sent from an
> unmonitored
> e-mail address and we are unable to respond to any
> replies.
>
> Thank you for using Microsoft products.
>
> With friendly greetings,
> Microsoft Network Customer Support
>

Julian
Thu Sep 18 16:26:11 CDT 2003

Like Mark, I thought it would be sensible to check the MS
Newsgroups to see if this message was bogus. Unlike
Vanguard, I am not a geek who knows everything about
computers but that doesn't give him the right to be
downright rude, arrogant, and condescending in dishing out
his advice. I have experienced this kind of belittling
reply from other MS Newsgroups in the past. I'll bet you
were bullied at school weren't you Vanguard ?

Julian (my real name)


>-----Original Message-----
>In the message you included, "... How to install Run
attached file. ..."
>
>Aw, c'mon, you haven't heard about viruses or a-holes
spoofing
>themselves as Microsoft. If you're getting e-mails with
attachments
>claiming they are patches, they are NOT from Microsoft.
You think
>Microsoft really cares about one lone person to ensure
their system is
>patched up to date? If anything, such bogus e-mails
should spur you to
>simply wander over to Microsoft's Windows Update site and
check if there
>really are any updates.
>
>Of course, since you didn't bother to list the headers
for this e-mail,
>no one can help you determine the source of this bogus e-
mail. If you
>are that gullible to believe such e-mails are from
Microsoft, it sounds
>like you really need to get some anti-spam software. I
use SpamPal
>along with its Bayesian, HTML-Modify, and Quarantine plug-
ins. They're
>all free. There are lots of other solutions, too. Anti-
virus software
>is also a must for you and, for you, make sure to enable
its e-mail
>scanning features so you can detect when e-mails arrive
with, ahem,
>"patches".
>
>--
>__________________________________________________________
__
>** Share with others. Post replies in the newsgroup.
>** If present, remove all "-nix" from my email address.
>__________________________________________________________
__
>
>
>"Mark Fox" <markfox@sc.rr.com> wrote in message
>news:06a801c37e24$89577b00$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> Some how I have gotten on a Microsoft Mailing list about
>> security updates. How do I get off this list?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Microsoft Customer
>>
>> this is the latest version of security update, the
>> "September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which
eliminates
>> all known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet
>> Explorer,
>> Outlook and Outlook Express as well as five newly
>> discovered vulnerabilities. Install now to protect your
>> computer
>> from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which
>> could allow
>> an attacker to run executable on your system. This
update
>> includes
>> the functionality of all previously released patches.
>>
>> System requirements Win 9x/Me/2000/NT/XP
>> This update applies to Microsoft Internet Explorer,
>> version 4.01 and later
>> Microsoft Outlook, version 8.00 and later
>> Microsoft Outlook Express, version 4.01 and later
>> Recommendation Customers should install the patch at the
>> earliest opportunity.
>> How to install Run attached file. Click Yes on displayed
>> dialog box.
>> How to use You don't need to do anything after
installing
>> this item.
>>
>> Microsoft Product Support Services and Knowledge Base
>> articles
>> can be found on the Microsoft Technical Support web
site.
>> For security-related information about Microsoft
products,
>> please
>> visit the Microsoft Security Advisor web site, or
Contact
>> us.
>>
>> Please do not reply to this message. It was sent from an
>> unmonitored
>> e-mail address and we are unable to respond to any
>> replies.
>>
>> Thank you for using Microsoft products.
>>
>> With friendly greetings,
>> Microsoft Network Customer Support
>>
>
>
>.
>

N
Thu Sep 18 16:42:53 CDT 2003

In article <04f801c37e2b$7b2c9a40$a401280a@phx.gbl>, jr.boston@rcn.com
says...
> Like Mark, I thought it would be sensible to check the MS
> Newsgroups to see if this message was bogus. Unlike
> Vanguard, I am not a geek who knows everything about
> computers but that doesn't give him the right to be
> downright rude, arrogant, and condescending in dishing out
> his advice. I have experienced this kind of belittling
> reply from other MS Newsgroups in the past. I'll bet you
> were bullied at school weren't you Vanguard ?

It doesn't take a geek to know how to look around when something suspicious
comes along. For some reason, people lose their skepticism when the email
claims to be "from" Microsoft", or even has an address from a common domain
name. I have encountered people, otherwise intelligent, who think that
Yahoo! is a major spam source! A little digging would prove otherwise.

"The T.V.|Radio|Interen says it is so, it must be so." Re-adjust your B.S.
detector and you won't have any problems.

--
Norman
~I'll be there, by your side
~in the land of Twilight.
~In your dream I will go
~'till we find the Sunlight.

Kathy
Thu Sep 18 18:01:39 CDT 2003

Hi,

I wanted to let you know that Microsoft does NOT will
email unsolicited security patches. Any mail you receive
that contains a file saying that it is a patch, or an
emai that says "click here" to receive the patch, etc.
did not come from Microsoft.

Rather, it appears you received the email resulting from
another computer (not yours) being invected by a mass
emailing worm. The two most widely-known are:

W32.Gibe_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w3
2.gibe@mm.html

W32.Dumaru_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w3
2.dumaru@mm.html

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin Emails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?
url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp

Any and all legitimate patches and updates are readily
available at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. For
easy access, just start WindowsUpdate on your computer
and it will hook to the official Microsoft site to
provide you with access to patches and updates from
Microsoft.

Kathy Prince
Program Manager
Microsoft Support Lifecycle & Security

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

>-----Original Message-----
>Some how I have gotten on a Microsoft Mailing list about
>security updates. How do I get off this list?
>
>--
>
>Microsoft Customer
>
>this is the latest version of security update, the
>"September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which
eliminates
>all known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet
>Explorer,
>Outlook and Outlook Express as well as five newly
>discovered vulnerabilities. Install now to protect your
>computer
>from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which
>could allow
>an attacker to run executable on your system. This
update
>includes
>the functionality of all previously released patches.
>
>System requirements Win 9x/Me/2000/NT/XP
>This update applies to Microsoft Internet Explorer,
>version 4.01 and later
>Microsoft Outlook, version 8.00 and later
>Microsoft Outlook Express, version 4.01 and later
>Recommendation Customers should install the patch at the
>earliest opportunity.
>How to install Run attached file. Click Yes on displayed
>dialog box.
>How to use You don't need to do anything after
installing
>this item.
>
>Microsoft Product Support Services and Knowledge Base
>articles
>can be found on the Microsoft Technical Support web site.
>For security-related information about Microsoft
products,
>please
>visit the Microsoft Security Advisor web site, or
Contact
>us.
>
>Please do not reply to this message. It was sent from an
>unmonitored
>e-mail address and we are unable to respond to any
>replies.
>
>Thank you for using Microsoft products.
>
>With friendly greetings,
>Microsoft Network Customer Support
>
>.
>