Don't download patches over email
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on March 9, 2004 at 4:57:02 PM
If you are receiving emails supposedly from Microsoft, don't be fooled. A new virus is popping up pretending to be a MyDoom patch. Don't execute files from emails and run an Antivirus scanner! http://www.grisoft.com it's free! I use it.
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Sober.d arrives as e-mail pretending to be from Microsoft with a patch for the MyDoom worm. Microsoft does not e-mail its customers with new patch information. The subject line could be in either German or English, with random letters or words in some variation of "new Microsoft security patch." The body text, also in German or English, reads: