full-disclosure - FW: Last Microsoft Patch

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From: cdevoney at u.washington.edu (Chris DeVoney)
Subject: FW: Last Microsoft Patch

Others will address the virus represented in this trojan e-mail, but MSNBC
is the domain for the Microsoft-NBC news web site. The pure illogic of
sending out security outdates from a domain for news/weather/sports is
pretty strong. So was using MSN.COM, their internet service, as a domain. If
the masqueraders had used Microsoft.com, it may have been a more believable
trojan (except that Microsoft states repeatedly they NEVER e-mail outdates).

cdv

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Curt Purdy
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 12:05 PM
To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: [Full-Disclosure] FW: Last Microsoft Patch

Anybody else get this?  Looks legit, originating address is from msnbc.com.
But can't believe even Microsoft would be this stupid after the rash of
trojan-attached "patch announcements" lately.  Plus all security people have
been saying that Microsoft would never email a patch out.  Or are they
thinking, "Send this out so all the stupid people will click on this before
they click on a real trojan?

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