[PLUG] A very clever anti-M$ scam

[Anthony Schlemmer]

Has any one done a virus scan on it yet. I saved off my copy and I'm 
going to try scanning it with Symantec AV later from my Win2K laptop to 
see what it might be harboring.

Tony

On Thursday 03 April 2003 09:54 am, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   I just received an e-mail, supposedly from M$ and addressed to "M$
> user". It contains an .exe attachment that is supposed to completely
> patch all previous, current and future vulnerabilities in Outrage,
> Lookout Express, Word, Excel, and whatever. They even provide URLs
> with "microsoft" in them for warm fuzzies.
>
>   The headers reveal that the message came from a server in Israel,
> so I forwarded the message to their "abuse at ..." address.
>
>   If any of you are interested in seeing a copy -- and/or playing
> with the attachment -- I'll forward it to you. I strongly suspect
> that the gullible who blithly run the executable will find their
> system compromised in one or more ways.
>
> Sigh,
>
> Rich
>
> Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
>
>                        Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
>             2404 SW 22nd Street | Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 | U.S.A.
>  + 1 503-667-4517 (voice) | + 1 503-667-8863 (fax) |
> rshepard at appl-ecosys.com http://www.appl-ecosys.com/
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG mailing list
> PLUG at lists.pdxlinux.org
> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

-- 
Anthony Schlemmer
aschlemm at attbi.com