"Use this patch immediately"

I've received a message claiming to be from
security@microsoft.com titled "Use this patch
immediately".

It reads exactly as follows:
Dear friend, use this Internet Explorer patch now!
There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
More than 500,000 already infected!

I figure that it is a virus, judging by the way it
was worded. Anyway, I couldn't detect any virus through
a scan of the e-mail. Any idea on what it may be before
I just blow it away?

Jupiter
Mon Jan 26 19:45:20 CST 2004

Randy;
Definitely bogus and probably had a virus:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/bogmail.htm

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Randy S" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4a8801c3e471$be5d5190$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> I've received a message claiming to be from
> security@microsoft.com titled "Use this patch
> immediately".
>
> It reads exactly as follows:
> Dear friend, use this Internet Explorer patch now!
> There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
> More than 500,000 already infected!
>
> I figure that it is a virus, judging by the way it
> was worded. Anyway, I couldn't detect any virus through
> a scan of the e-mail. Any idea on what it may be before
> I just blow it away?
>