Friday, May 20, 2005

Fake Microsoft patch

<A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1817915,00.asp">A bogus cumulative update</A> with a malicious attachment has followed Microsoft's patch day. In what has become a monthly staple, virus writers are taking advantage of the heightened public interest around Microsoft's patching cycle to trick users into executing a malicious attachment. The latest social engineering trick arrives via e-mail with an attachment that purports to be a "cumulative patch" for May 2005.

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