Spoofed Microsoft Security Alert

The Creators of the spoofed Microsoft security alerts
whith a so called Microsoft security patch Attachment
(Virus Dropper), have got more clever.

I received a new spoof today with no attachment, however
a cursory glance through the source code before opening
showed nothing to make me belive it was not a Microsoft
Security allert. I Missed one tiny piece of code that on
opening attempted to download an ActiveX control.
Thankfully my settings blocked this. Be Warned.

If Microsoft would like to contact me I will forward the
email.
Yours
Philip Bailey

chiquita
Mon Jan 26 10:02:13 CST 2004


>-----Original Message-----
>The Creators of the spoofed Microsoft security alerts
>whith a so called Microsoft security patch Attachment
>(Virus Dropper), have got more clever.
>
>I received a new spoof today with no attachment, however
>a cursory glance through the source code before opening
>showed nothing to make me belive it was not a Microsoft
>Security allert. I Missed one tiny piece of code that on
>opening attempted to download an ActiveX control.
>Thankfully my settings blocked this. Be Warned.
>
>If Microsoft would like to contact me I will forward the
>email.
>Yours
>Philip Bailey
>.
>I receive these almost daily all with attachments I
delete them imediately Im sure msft knows about this,and
you would think they would put a stop to this.

Jim
Mon Jan 26 10:21:44 CST 2004

Philip Bailey wrote:
> The Creators of the spoofed Microsoft security alerts
> whith a so called Microsoft security patch Attachment
> (Virus Dropper), have got more clever.
>
> I received a new spoof today with no attachment, however
> a cursory glance through the source code before opening
> showed nothing to make me belive it was not a Microsoft
> Security allert. I Missed one tiny piece of code that on
> opening attempted to download an ActiveX control.
> Thankfully my settings blocked this. Be Warned.
>
> If Microsoft would like to contact me I will forward the
> email.
> Yours
> Philip Bailey
I received one of these this morning as well. It is not the previous
"security warning" email and my security settings stopped an ActiveX
control from running. Anyone know which virus it is?

curtisko
Mon Jan 26 13:40:59 CST 2004

Hi Phillip,
Please call into our Support lines for security/virus reports (this should
be free) and report this issue formally.
Thanks,
--
Curtis Koenig
Support Engineer
Product Support Services, Security Team
MCSE, MCSES, CISSP

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights.
Please reply to the newsgroup so that others may benefit. Thanks!

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>From: "Philip Bailey" <pjb@philipbailey.co.uk>
>Subject: Spoofed Microsoft Security Alert
>Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 06:01:30 -0800
>
>The Creators of the spoofed Microsoft security alerts
>whith a so called Microsoft security patch Attachment
>(Virus Dropper), have got more clever.
>
>I received a new spoof today with no attachment, however
>a cursory glance through the source code before opening
>showed nothing to make me belive it was not a Microsoft
>Security allert. I Missed one tiny piece of code that on
>opening attempted to download an ActiveX control.
>Thankfully my settings blocked this. Be Warned.
>
>If Microsoft would like to contact me I will forward the
>email.
>Yours
>Philip Bailey
>

Bill
Mon Jan 26 13:52:35 CST 2004

That would be:

1-866-PCSAFETY in the U.S. and Canada.

Otherwise, call your local Microsoft subsidiary found via:

http://support.microsoft.com/common/international.aspx

"Curtis Koenig [MSFT]" <curtisko@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:GqfFVRE5DHA.1992@cpmsftngxa07.phx.gbl...
> Hi Phillip,
> Please call into our Support lines for security/virus reports (this should
> be free) and report this issue formally.
> Thanks,
> --
> Curtis Koenig
> Support Engineer
> Product Support Services, Security Team
> MCSE, MCSES, CISSP
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights.
> Please reply to the newsgroup so that others may benefit. Thanks!
>
> --------------------
>>From: "Philip Bailey" <pjb@philipbailey.co.uk>
>>Subject: Spoofed Microsoft Security Alert
>>Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 06:01:30 -0800
>>
>>The Creators of the spoofed Microsoft security alerts
>>whith a so called Microsoft security patch Attachment
>>(Virus Dropper), have got more clever.
>>
>>I received a new spoof today with no attachment, however
>>a cursory glance through the source code before opening
>>showed nothing to make me belive it was not a Microsoft
>>Security allert. I Missed one tiny piece of code that on
>>opening attempted to download an ActiveX control.
>>Thankfully my settings blocked this. Be Warned.
>>
>>If Microsoft would like to contact me I will forward the
>>email.
>>Yours
>>Philip Bailey
>>
>